ADHD medicine’s long-term safety still a question

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ADHD medicine’s long-term safety still a question

By Ronnie Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Scant research has been done on the long-term safety of drugs for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new analysis shows, though millions of American children have been taking them for decades. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 11 percent of American children between the ages of four and 17 - or 6.4 million - had been diagnosed with ADHD as of 2011. “We have too few long-term studies on the effects of these medicines,” Dr. Sanford Newmark told Reuters Health. Researchers from the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, Italy, found a dearth of long-term studies on side effects of stimulants such as Ritalin, which some kids take into adulthood.

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