ADHD Prescribed Drugs - Monitoring Program

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Hi all,

This article may be of interest.

If someone here is also a member of Dr McCandless' group, could they please

forward them a copy,

thanks,

Cris

casehealth.com.au

ADHD Drugs Ineffective Over The Long Term

Article Date: 12 Nov 2007 - 0:00 PST

Apart from being ineffective over the long term, ADHD (attention

deficit/hyperactivity disorder) drugs may

also undermine your child's physical growth, a BBC television program, Panorama,

has revealed. Scientists seem

to be saying that claims made about ADHD drugs some years ago were overstated.

A long-term monitoring program involving 600 kids across the United States since

the beginning of the 1990s

was shown in the TV program - with some of its results. It is called the

Multimodal Treatment Study of

Children with ADHD. The study concluded that over the long term, such ADHD drugs

as Concerta and Ritalin have

no demonstrable benefit for children - long term means after three years of

taking the drug(s). ...

Article URL medicalnewstoday.com/articles/88431.php