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Increase in Number of ADHD Children Prescribed Drugs That Do ‘more Harm Than Good’

Tory Shepherd: The Advertiser, 20 January 2015Up-trending graph made of pills.A surge in the number of children aged six and under on ADHD medications could be caused by one or two practitioners overprescribing the drugs, a top child psychiatrist says.

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