Myomancy ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism

It seems the number of children in the US having problems sleeping is increasing and the blame is being put on the drugs used to treat ADHD. Insomnia is a common side-effect of Ritalin and Strattera, stimulants often used for ADHD. About 15 percent of people under age 20 who received sleeping pills were also being given drugs to treat attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. Worryingly there is not a sleeping drug that has been approved by the US Food & Drug Administration for under 18’s so doctors are prescribing drugs without information on recommended dosage and side-effects.
The expansive marketing campaigns by makers of sleeping pills has been blamed by some people for the rise and they predict the figures will be worse in 2005 because those campaigns expanded in 2005 after the introduction of a new pill, Lunesta.
This data comes from the Medco’s 2005 survey (covering data upto 2004) that we covered in ADHD Meds Cost and Usage Increase