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Journal Article
Medication for Attention Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder and Criminality
2012
Overview
Use of ADHD Medication and Criminality
Whether pharmacologic treatment for attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder reduces the risk of criminality is not known. In this observational study, patients with ADHD were less likely to be convicted of a crime during periods when they were taking an ADHD medication.
About 5% of all children in the Western world fulfill diagnostic criteria for attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),
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and a large proportion of such children are treated pharmacologically.
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ADHD has been associated with criminality
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,
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and externalizing disorders.
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Beneficial short-term effects of ADHD medication on symptoms of ADHD and associated conduct problems have been shown in numerous randomized, controlled studies involving children
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–
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and adults.
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–
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ADHD symptoms are largely persistent from childhood into adulthood,
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but one prominent feature of ADHD treatment is that the discontinuation of medication is common,
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,
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especially in adolescence and early adulthood.
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The importance of treatment . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Subject
/ Adult
/ Adults
/ Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - drug therapy
/ Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - psychology
/ Attention deficit disorders. Hyperactivity
/ Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Central Nervous System Stimulants - therapeutic use
/ Crime
/ Crime - prevention & control
/ Crime - statistics & numerical data
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Patients
/ Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
/ Sweden
