Drugs for attention-deficit disorder carry a prominent warning about heart risks! This is a government advisory panel’s recommendation made this month. Patients are getting panicked by this recommendation, and making phone calls to psychiatrists. The calls are coming not just from parents of children who take the drugs but from adult users, who the panel warned might be at the highest risk for heart problems.
“Every single adult patient I saw today, the first thing out of their mouth was, ‘Am I going to drop dead on this?’ Every single one of them,” said Dr. Timothy Wilens, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Dr. James McGough, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, said he had received several calls from parents “who were very upset and nervous” about potential risks.
Via: New York Times