Posted by KaraS on December 7, 2005, at 21:30:42
According to Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., in his book "Delivered from Distraction", Amantadine is being successfully used on children by two doctors in the Boston area. These doctors, William Singer and Roger Cohen, have supposedly treated four hundred patients with Amantadine (as of the time this book went to print) and obtained "excellent results" with it. They say that they have succeeded where others have failed because they started the medication at very low dosages and built up gradually.
I wonder why they've only tried this in children. I can't see why this wouldn't work for adults with ADHD as well. Has anyone here used Amantadine for this purpose or known of someone who has?
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