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Medicine goes to school: teachers as sickness brokers for ADHD

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2006-04-11

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Phillips, Christine

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Public Library of Science

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Over the last twenty years, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has emerged as a disorder of importance in childhood. Prescription of psychostimulants for ADHD escalated in many countries through the 1990s.

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Keywords: amphetamine; methylphenidate; central stimulant agent; attention deficit disorder; consumer health information; cost benefit analysis; disruptive behavior; drug industry; drug information; drug use; dyslexia; health program; human; information center; inf

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PLoS Medicine 3.4 (2006): e182

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http://hdl.handle.net/10440/483
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PLoS Medicine

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10.1371/journal.pmed.0030182

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