EXCLUSIVE Medical experts expose the dark side of ADHD drugs - from serious psychiatric side effects to heart problems - as urgent warning issued for students and people with 'pseudo' ADHD
Peter was only 12 when he was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed Ritalin, medication which was, in his mother's words, a 'godsend – his focus improved and he stopped climbing the walls'.
But five years on and Joanne, 55, who lives in Hampshire with her husband Paul and their three children, takes a different view.
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