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An FDA advisory panel recommends that the drug modafinil not be approved for the treatment of ADHD in children despite the fact that it is effective.
 
Instead, the panel suggests that the drug company, Cephalon Inc., study the drug's risk for inducing Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a rare and sometimes fatal skin reaction.

Use of Drug to Treat ADHD in Children Opposed -

Washington Post - 3/23/2006 11:42 PM

The narcolepsy drug modafinil should not be approved as a treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children until more is learned about a possible link to a serious skin disease, federal advisers said yesterday.
 
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted 12 to 1 against recommending modafinil as safe for children with ADHD. Earlier, the psychopharmacologic drugs panel unanimously agreed that modafinil works as a tre
 
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