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ADHD Drugs Have No Long-Term Effects on Growth

(Reuters) UPDATED 2010-06-23
A ten-year study of 261 kids with and without ADHD has found that stimulant medications do not impact kids' growth long term. Previous studies have suggested that ADHD medications may make kids eat less and grow more slowly than their peers, but New York researchers found there was no difference in the height and weight of the participants at the end of the study, regardless of how long they had been on stimulants.
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