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Data from 1995 show that physicians treating children and adolescents wrote six million prescriptions for stimulant medications—methylphenidate (Ritalin®) and dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine®). Of all the drugs used to treat psychiatric disorders in children, stimulant medications are the most thoroughly studied.
