ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Many children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can benefit
from medication for related disorders such as
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
“Unfortunately,
there is very poor understanding of overall medication use for kids
with autism,” says Paul T. Shattuck, PhD, assistant professor at the
Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
As a step toward improving the situation, Shattuck and
colleagues studied psychotropic medication use compared across individuals with an ASD, ADHD and both an ASD with ADHD.
They
found that children and young adults with both an ASD and ADHD had the
highest rates of medicine use (58.2 percent) followed by youths with
ADHD-only (49 percent) and youths with ASD-only (34.3 percent).
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