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ADHD: Medicines alone do not improve children’s classroom learning – new research

Children with ADHD are having a hard time academically. Upyanose / Getty Images For decades, many doctors, parents, and teachers have believed that stimulants are useful for learning because children with ADHD can focus and act when they take the drug. After all, an estimated 6.1 million children in the United States have been diagnosed with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder, and more than 90% are prescribed stimulants as the primary treatment at school.However, in peer review