Study: More children using prescription drugs
NBC 10 News
Published: November 3, 2008
Updated: November 3, 2008
Published: November 3, 2008
Updated: November 3, 2008
More children than ever are using prescription drugs.
A study published in the Journal of Pediatrics looked at prescription claims from over three-million children age 5 to 19.
The study found that Type 2 diabetes prescriptions doubled in four years, asthma medication use went up 50 percent and ADHD prescriptions went up 40 percent.
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