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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am always surprised how little research people do on this. The evidence is that ADHD meds do not improve school performance in the long term. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323368704578593660384362292[/quote]

I can't read that particular article since I don't subscribe to WSJ, but I have read other articles published around the same time, including several that quoted/cited the WSJ article. From what I've read, the evidence on impact on grades/academic performance is much more mixed than you're presenting it, with some studies finding an improvement in long-term performance. Also, some of the studies referenced as supporting the notion that medication doesn't help are from the 70s, back when both understand of ADHD and available medication options were very different than they are today, reducing the relevance of that research to modern treatment. Finally, as someone else said, treatment of ADHD is about so much more than just grades; to suggest otherwise is deeply ignorant.[/quote]

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