ADHD

ADHD Drugs Top Rx for Kids

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Prescription drug use in the pediatric population fell from 2002 to 2010, but the use of birth control and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications rose, the FDA reported.

Outpatient contraceptive prescriptions jumped 93% from 2002 to 2010 among kids 17 and younger, Grace Chai, PharmD, of the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in Silver Spring, Md., and colleagues found.

ADHD drug scripts rose 46% over the same period in the national analysis of prescription databases reported in the July issue of Pediatrics.

via Medical News: FDA: ADHD Drugs Top Rx for Kids – in Pediatrics, General Pediatrics from MedPage Today.

Birth control and chronic sedation have replaced traditional parenting.

Teva’s Adderall 30 mg Tabs – Counterfeit Product – Contains Wrong Active Ingredients

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The counterfeit Adderall tablets are round, white and do not have any type of markings, such as letters or numbers. Authentic Adderall 30 mg tablets produced by Teva are round, orange/peach, and scored tablets with “dp” embossed on one side and “30” on the other side of the tablet.

Adderall contains four active ingredients – dextroamphetamine saccharate, amphetamine aspartate, dextroamphetamine sulfate, and amphetamine sulfate. Instead of these active ingredients, the counterfeit product contained tramadol and acetaminophen, which are ingredients in medicines used to treat acute pain.

via Safety Alerts for Human Medical Products > Teva’s Adderall 30 mg Tablets: Counterfeit Product – Contains Wrong Active Ingredients.

If you or your child is bouncing off the walls AND you bought Adderall off the Internet, check to see if your tablets are white and have no markings.

 

ADHD Drugs and CV Events

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ADHD Drugs and Serious Cardiovascular Events in Children and Young Adults — NEJM

In conclusion, in our study involving children and young adults with 2.5 million person-years of follow-up, there were 3.1 serious cardiovascular events per 100,000 person-years. Although the point estimates of the relative risks for ADHD drugs did not indicate increased risk, the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval suggested that a doubling in the risk could not be ruled out. However, the absolute magnitude of any increased risk would be low.

The entire article is worth reading given the potential serious side effects of the drugs in question.