According to MedPage Today (7/5, DePeau-Wilson), for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), “use of prescription stimulant medication to manage their symptoms was not associated with later substance use,” investigators concluded in a “longitudinal analysis” that “followed patients with” AD/HD “over a 16-year period from childhood through adolescence into early adulthood.” The findings of the 547-child study were published online July 5 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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