A new medical study found a 76 percent surge over an eight-year period in the number of calls to the nation's poison control centers because of youngsters abusing drugs prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to an Associated Press report.
As the AP story notes, the increase tracks the rapid growth in how medications, often but not always amphetamines, are prescribed. The prescribing of the medications, used to help ADHD patients focus better, has increased 86 percent during the same time period.
So the news that ADHD drug abuse has grown so much, while alarming isn't necessarily a surprise.
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