Intensive ADHD therapies offer 'little benefit'

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Intensive therapies offer little benefit for children with ADHD, suggest US study findings.

Neither intensive medication nor behavioural intervention for ADHD led to sustained improvement of the condition, compared with more moderate care.

The latest findings, from the Multimodal Treatment Study of children with ADHD (MTA), go against earlier results that suggested the 14-month course of intensive medical management and behavioural therapy worked.

But three-year follow-up data from 485 of 579 children involved in the study showed this improvement does not persist.

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He added: ‘It’s a sort of let-out for the NHS because they’re suggesting that there’s no benefit of an intensive regime.

‘There was no way that the NHS was going to be able to provide that level of intensive therapy in routine practice.’

If you diagnose the wrong problem, then the treatments you come up with don't work.