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Treatment of adult ADHD is on the rise. Why?
33 minutes Posted Mar 23, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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New prescriptions for stimulant medications used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the years before it, with the largest increases among adults aged 18 to 34 and among women. Dr. Tara Gomes, a professor at the University of Toronto and principal investigator of the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network, discusses findings from the CMAJ research article Patterns of prescription stimulant initiation before and during the C...