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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wasn't there a study just published that said the medicated kids did better in school but earned less as adults, and the non-medicated kids did worse in school but made more $$ as adults?[/quote]

The report stated this in regards to adults medicated as children, not adults treated as adults which your statement alludes to:

Results pertaining to childhood medication treatment were quite interesting. Adults with ADHD who had not received medication treatment as children (n=329) were over three times as likely to be unemployed than those who had (n=75). This finding remained even when educational attainment was controlled for.

Adults who had not been treated with medication in childhood also reported significantly higher rates of anxiety and depressive symptoms.

[url]http://www.add.org/page/doesadhdmedication/?terms=%22research+update%22[/url][/quote]

I found this summary and implication from the study interesting and supportive of prescribing medication earlier in life than later:

An especially intriguing finding was the strong relationship between medication treatment in childhood and employment status in adulthood, as those who had been treated were far more likely to be employed. What makes this finding particularly striking is that individuals treated with medication as children would be likely to have had more severe cases of ADHD to begin with, particularly since medication treatment is less common in Norway than in the US. If this were the case, it would have worked against more positive occupational outcomes in adulthood, thus suggesting an especially important role for medication treatment.
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