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ADHD Med Errors Among Kids Have Surged in Last 2 Decades

September 21, 2023
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ADHD Med Errors Among Kids Have Surged in Last 2 Decades
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Sept. 20, 2023 – Medication errors among children who take drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, reported to U.S. poison control centers increased by nearly 300% over a 22-year period, a new study published in the journal Pediatrics has found.

The dramatic jump is likely due to a rise in prescriptions for ADHD medications for children. In 2019, nearly 10% of children in the United States had been diagnosed with ADHD, and some 3.3 million – or about 5% of all children in the country – had received a prescription for an ADHD medication, according to the study authors. 

“Because therapeutic errors are preventable, more attention should be given to patient and caregiver education and development of improved child-resistant medication dispensing and tracking systems,” the authors wrote. 

The investigators analyzed data from the National Poison Data System from 2000 through 2021 for therapeutic errors linked to ADHD medication among patients younger than 20. 

“As medicine changes, it’s nice to look back at some of these things and see how some of these problems have changed,” said Natalie I. Rine, PharmD, a co-author of the study and director of the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus.

The researchers identified 124,383 such errors reported to U.S. poison centers during the study period. The frequency increased by 299%.

Two-thirds (66.6%) of the exposures involved children aged 6 to 12 years, three-fourths (76.4%) were among males, and half (50.5%) involved stimulants and related compounds. Most (79.7%) therapeutic errors were linked to exposure to a single substance. Nearly 83% of patients did not receive treatment at a health care facility. But 2.3% were admitted to the hospital, and 4.2% had a “serious medical outcome,” the researchers found.

The most common scenarios were “inadvertently taken or given medication twice” (53.9%), followed by “inadvertently taken or given someone else’s medication” (13.4%) and “wrong medication taken or given” (12.9%), according to the researchers. Two percent involved mistakes by a pharmacist or nurse.

Easily Preventable

Rine said simple mistakes caused the errors, which were likely the product of busy households and distracted caregivers. She said that the errors are easily avoided by storing the medication properly, keeping a sheet with the medication to document what was taken and when, and using a pillbox or one of many apps that can help document the dispensing of medications.

“I think the biggest thing is that a lot of these errors are preventable, more than anything else,” Rine said.

The increase in ADHD diagnoses among children and the subsequent prescribing of medications are reasons for the nearly 300% increase in poison control calls. A 2018 study showed that the estimated prevalence of ADHD diagnoses among US children and adolescents increased from 6.1% in 1997 to1998 to 10.2% in 2015 to 2016. The CDC states that 6 million children and adolescents aged 3 to 17 years have been diagnosed with ADHD, and 62% have received ADHD medication.

Colleen Kraft, MD, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, said she was not surprised by the reported increase in errors. In addition to the simple uptick in ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions in the past 2 decades, Kraft said the growing variety of ADHD medication is a cause of more errors.

“Because we have so many more different types of these medications, it’s easy to confuse them, and it’s easy to make an error when you give this to a child,” she said. 

Kraft also said that since ADHD can have a genetic component, some parents with undiagnosed and untreated ADHD may be responsible for their child’s medication, a scenario ripe for mistakes.

Potential Dangers

Not all ADHD medicinal overdosing is created equal, Kraft pointed out. Doubling up on a stimulant such as methylphenidate, more commonly known as Ritalin, or the combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, or Adderall, may cause headaches, suppress appetite, and cause an upset stomach, although those symptoms usually clear up in a few hours.

But, she noted, the use of alpha-1 adrenergic blockers is more concerning. Also used to treat high blood pressure, medications such as guanfacine and clonidine sedate you. A double dose can cause blood pressure to decrease to dangerous levels.

The study’s primary limitation was bias in self-reporting, which may have led to underreporting of cases, according to the researchers. Not every case in which an error occurs that involves a child taking ADHD medication gets reported to poison control, because some will take a wait-and-see approach and may not call if their child doesn’t have symptoms. 

“Our data is only as good as what the callers report to us,” Rine said.

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