It is thought ADHD could affect up to five per cent of British youngsters.

The study of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) found that, while powerful drugs such as Ritalin and Concerta resulted in short-term behavioural improvements, after three years those benefits had disappeared.
Children who took the drugs for the full three years were also found to have stunted growth. 

Children with ADHD have an unusually short attention span and become easily distracted. They are over-active and restless, tend to perform poorly at school and struggle to develop social skills.

Drugs given to thousands of hyperactive children have no long-term benefits and could in fact be stunting their development, a major study has said.

"There were no beneficial effects - none. In the short run medication will help the child behave better, in the long run it won't.

Psychiatrists, said: "A generous understanding would be to say that doctors have reached the point where they don't know what else to offer, and they haven't really got the right supports to help parents and children in difficult circumstances.

Dr Kendall heads a team that is drawing up new guidelines for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) for the treatment of ADHD sufferers.

He said the guidelines would focus on providing not just medication, but also support networks and parent training programmes.

photo: news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/health/3225209.stm
news: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/12/ndrugs112.xml

如果台灣的治療用藥也是如此的話,那真該提高這方面的警覺,這不是一個孩子的問題引發的學校事件或是家庭虐待,當家中有這樣的孩子,孩子、家庭和學校都該要被照顧到

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