{"id":19632,"date":"2017-03-13T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=19632"},"modified":"2017-03-14T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T22:23:09","slug":"benefits-of-long-term-use-of-adhd-medications-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2017\/03\/benefits-of-long-term-use-of-adhd-medications-questioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of long-term use of ADHD medications questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release:<\/p>\n<p id=\"first\" class=\"lead\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15981\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/magnesium-pills.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"185\" \/>In a study that followed more than 500 children with attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) into adulthood, <strong>extended use of stimulant medication was linked with suppressed adult height but not with reduced symptoms of ADHD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"text\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The findings suggest that <strong>short-term treatment of ADHD with stimulant medication is well justified by benefits that outweigh costs<\/strong>, but <strong>long-term treatment may be associated with growth-related costs that may not be balanced by symptom-related benefits<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The most recently published guidelines (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2011) recommend expanding the diagnosis and treatment beyond school-aged children and using stimulant medication as first-line treatment for adolescents as well as school-aged children,&#8221; wrote the authors of <em>The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry<\/em> study. &#8220;Since this would increase the average duration of treatment and cumulative ME dose of medication in some individuals, the findings suggest growth-related costs may increase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release: In a study that followed more than 500 children with attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) into adulthood, extended use of stimulant medication was linked with suppressed adult&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2017\/03\/benefits-of-long-term-use-of-adhd-medications-questioned\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[361,346],"tags":[104,179,105,216,45,73,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19676,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19632\/revisions\/19676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}