Medicine goes to school: Teachers as sickness brokers for ADHD

Christine B. Phillips

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030182

Medicine goes to school: Teachers as sickness brokers for ADHD

Christine B. Phillips^*

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Over the last twenty years, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has emerged as a disorder of importance in childhood. Prescription of psychostimulants for ADHD escalated in many countries through the 1990s.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	433-435
Number of pages	3
Journal	PLoS Medicine
Volume	3
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030182
Publication status	Published - Apr 2006

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