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A recent article in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (March 23, 2009), reports on the latest data from the multi-year federal study called the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD (MTA)

The MTA was designed to test whether children diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, do better when treated with drugs, with drugs plus talk therapy, with talk therapy alone or with routine medical care alone.

With the MTA having followed the children for eight years, the latest data have confirmed that there are no long-term differences between children who were continuously medicated and those who were never medicated.

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The latest data paint a very different picture than the study’s positive initial results, reported in 1999.

In August 2007, the MTA researchers reported the first follow-up data, which by then no longer showed differences in behavior between children who were medicated and those who were not. But the data did show that children who took the drugs for 36 months were about an inch shorter and six pounds lighter than those who did not.

One principal scientist in the study, psychologist William Pelham, said that the most obvious interpretation of the data is that the medications are useful in the short term but ineffective over longer periods. “If 5 percent of families in the country are giving a medication to their children, and they don’t realize it does not have long-term benefits but might have long-term risks, why should they not be told?”

Brooke Molina, also a co-author and a University of Pittsburgh associate professor of psychology and psychiatry, said the data does not “support that children who stay on medication longer than two years have better outcomes than children who don’t.”

More info: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

To me, this is another report of ADHD drugs being over hyped and over used without realizing the damage it does. I strongly encourage you to be thoroughly lab tested to discover the cause of the ADHD symptoms and then begin a treatment program using specific nutraceuticals to recover. Research shows this alternative medicine approach does work. Take a look at this study: ritalin-supplements-case-study.pdf (If you are already taking ADHD drugs, don’t stop until you have been tested).

Go to this web site to learn more about functional lab testing for ADHD >> healthsolutioncenter.com/ADHD-Lab-Test.html