ADHD MedGuide for parents

Executive Summary

A medication guide directed at parents providing information about attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder can now be accessed through the ParentsMedGuide.org online resource center, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association announce Oct. 2. Organized around questions parents might have about ADHD, the guide provides information on symptoms, treatment options, types of medications, side effects, and co-occurring disorders. The initiative follows FDA's requirement that all manufacturers of ADHD drugs disseminate MedGuides to educate patients, care-givers and clinicians of the drugs' potential links to adverse cardiac and psychiatric events (1"The Pink Sheet" Feb. 26, 2007, p. 3)...