Kids Are Taking Fewer Antibiotics, More ADHD Meds
Doctors are prescribing fewer drugs to children, especially antibiotics. But use of certain drugs, including ADHD medications, has increased.
Children and adolescents are getting fewer prescription drugs than they did in years past, according to a study that looks at a cross-section of the American population.
"The decrease in antibiotic use is really what's driving this overall decline in prescription medication use that we're seeing in children and adolescents," says Craig Hales, a preventive medicine
