Stim Nation: ADHD Drugs Stunting Growth
I cannot find the original research online but various web sites are reporting this story:
A new review of past studies on the effect that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs have on children’’s growth concludes that the drugs do, in fact, suppress growth to some degree.
While the effect found was statistically significant, one of the study’’s authors, Dr. Omar Khwaja, an instructor in neurology at Children’’s Hospital Boston, said the average growth suppression for a 10-year-old boy was probably about three-quarters of an inch in height and a little more than two pounds in weight.
Find Out More:
Books:
- Talking Back to Ritalin: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You About Stimulants and ADHD
- Stopping ADHD
- Nature’s Ritalin for the Marathon Mind: Nurturing Your ADHD Child With Exercise
- Ritalin-Free Kids: Safe and Effective Homeopathic Medicine for ADHD and Other Behavioral and Learning Problems
- Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
June 11th, 2006
ADD / ADHD Medication, ADD / ADHD
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