News tagged with 'Adderal'

ADHD may have less to do with willful defiance or inattention and more to do with lacking dopamine in the brain, specifically in the areas that govern reward and motivation, this study finds.

Calls coming into poison control centers around the country jumped 76 percent over a seven-year period, reporting teens having a bad reaction to drugs used to treat ADHD, this study finds. That jump roughly corresponds with the sharp rise in the prescription use of these stimulants in children and teens.

Young people in Eastern Iowa appear to be overdosing on prescription drugs for ADHD. About 2.5 million kids are on the stimulants, with use increasing, despite a recently published article that suggests a link between the medications and sudden cardiac death. 

When seven-year-old Gabriel Myers hanged himself in a foster care home, Florida immediately conducted an audit on how many kids, like Gabriel, were on mind-altering drugs.  Up to three times the general population are put on psychiatric drugs with the numbers increasing to one-in-three among teens in group homes.