By Maggie Fox
The number of young adults taking drugs for ADHD has soared in five years, particularly among young women, whose use of the drugs is up 85 percent, according to a new report.[…]
The findings don’t surprise Stephen Hinshaw, a professor of psychology at the University of California Berkeley who has studied ADHD in girls and young women. “These are women who need help,” Hinshaw told NBC News.[…] “This (rise in diagnoses) would be helpful if it eliminated this self-injurious behavior,” said Hinshaw, who has co-written a new book, “The ADHD Explosion.”
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