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U.S. Children Cut Back on Prescription Meds

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Demography Unplugged
May 21, 2018
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A new study finds that U.S. children and adolescents are taking fewer prescription medications today than they were in 1999. Behind this blanket decline, however, use of certain medications—such as ADHD meds—has risen over the same time period.

—Journal of the American Medical Association

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