Doctors have known that some children and adolescents taking stimulant medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder experience psychiatric symptoms from the drugs, such as hallucinations, hearing voices, paranoia and mania. In 2007, the Food and Drug Administration ordered manufacturers of stimulant medications to add new warnings about psychiatric and cardiovascular side effects to package inserts. And patient medication guides are also Read the rest of this entry »

Washington (dbTechno) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found a link between drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and hallucinations in children.
The FDA study focused on ADHD drugs such as Adderall XR, Focalin, Metadate CD, as well as Ritalin to see if they had any impact at all on the risk that children may suffer from hallucinations.
In total, they found over 850 instances where kids being treated with Read the rest of this entry »

Would you like to take performance-enhancing drugs to boost your pro sports career? Are the drugs banned as a form of cheating? No problem. Just find a doctor willing to certify that you have a “deficit” of the performance factor in question.
That’s what seems to be happening in Major League Baseball. Three years ago, the league belatedly banned stimulants on the grounds that they unfairly aided players’ performance. At the time, 28 players had Read the rest of this entry »

Jan. 26, 2009 — Treatment-related hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be more common than previously thought, FDA officials report in the latest issue of the journal
Pediatrics.
In an earlier investigation, FDA researchers identified more than 850 separate incidences of hallucinations and other psychotic episodes among children taking stimulants used to treat ADHD.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Girls who take stimulants to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are less likely than others with the condition to start smoking or to abuse alcohol or drugs, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
They said girls with ADHD who took stimulant drugs had half the risk of substance abuse and nearly half the risk of smoking cigarettes as those who were not treated with drugs.
“It shows a greater than 50 percent reduction for Read the rest of this entry »

A recently released study from the Food and Drug Administration has found that children who take medication for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) can suffer from hallucinations.
, researchers concluded that drugs for ADHD can cause “psychosis and mania in some patients” even when taken as directed.
In some of the cases, children were reported to have imagined that insects and snakes were crawling on their bodies. In another case, Read the rest of this entry »

MADISON, Wis. –
It’s final exam week for thousands of University of Wisconsin students on campus.
For years, some students have quietly taken drugs like Ritalin and Adderall to help them focus and prepare for exams. The drugs are widely prescribed by physicians to help school children focus longer and perform better in school.
Some college students said it’s no secret that students use the medicines and get them illegally.
An opinion article Read the rest of this entry »

attention-deficit disorder drug has gotten the pharmaceutical company in trouble with the Food and Drug Administration.
Last week, the FDA issued a warning letter to Shire — a Basingstoke, England, company that has its U.S. headquarters in Chester County — in which it told Shire to pull the plug on the video.
Shire spokesman Matt Cabrey said the video in question, which features former company spokesman Ty Pennington of the “Extreme Read the rest of this entry »

study of undergraduates, 5 percent of respondents said they had
like Ritalin, Adderall, or Concerta without a prescription in the past six months; 90 percent of those respondents said they used the drug to help them study, as opposed to nonacademic uses like “to get high.”
Seventy percent of those who used the drug to study found it effective, despite nearly a quarter experiencing side effects like loss of appetite or difficulty sleeping. Inside Read the rest of this entry »

says that as many as 1.48 psychotic symptoms per 100 person-years could result from the use of the medications prescribed for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In other words, for every 100 children taking a medication for one year, one or two will experience hallucinations or similar issues.
Patient warnings for ADHD have been on medication labels since 2007, based onFDA recommendations following reports that about Read the rest of this entry »