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Methylphenidate and Clonidine Help Children With ADHD and TicsTuesday, Apr 2, 2002
For decades, doctors who have treated children with both attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and tics have been
warned not to prescribe methylphenidate (Ritalin), the most common drug for ADHD, because of a concern that it would make
the tics worse. Now, the first randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of methylphenidate and another drug, clonidine
(Catapres), has found that in fact these drugs do not adversely affect tics. The researchers also found that a combination
of the drugs is more effective than either drug alone.
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