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  • Title: Stimulant medication and the hyperactive adolescent: myths and facts.
    Author: Clampit MK, Pirkle JB.
    Journal: Adolescence; 1983; 18(72):811-22. PubMed ID: 6666706.
    Abstract:
    There is a widespread myth that when hyperactive or attentionally disabled youth reach puberty, stimulant medication ceases to be an effective and appropriate means of treatment. Since there is no scientific data to support this myth, its origin and maintenance are attributed to nonrational beliefs about stimulant medication, hyperactivity, and adolescence, as well as to methodological factors which have hampered accurate data-gathering by professionals.
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