The ADHD Skills Lab
The ADHD Skills Lab
Skye Waterson
Why 50% of People With ADHD Quit Their Medication
14 minutes Posted May 31, 2026 at 11:00 am.
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Why do so many people start ADHD medication... and then quietly stop within a year or two? In this Research Recap, Skye and Will unpack a systematic literature review examining why over half of all patients discontinue or significantly reduce ADHD medication within 2 to 3 years of starting. This episode isn't about whether you should take medication. It's about something more practical: what the data actually found about why people stop, where expert assumptions conflict with what patients re...