nalysis of data from two long-term studies of the impact of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on the development of psychiatric disorders in young adults confirms that ADHD alone significantly increases the risk of cigarette smoking and substance abuse in both boys and girls. The report from a team of Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will appear in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) and has been released online.
“Our study, which is one of the largest set of longitudinal studies of this issue to date, supports the association between ADHD and substance abuse found in several earlier studies and shows that the increased risk cannot be accounted for by coexisting factors such as other psychiatric disorders or family history of substance abuse,” says Timothy Wilens of the MGH Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit, who led the study. “Overall, study participants diagnosed with ADHD had a one-and-a-half-times greater risk of developing substance abuse than did control participants.”
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/06/adhd-linked-to-substance-abuse-risk/
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html
Experto asegura que se puede desarrollar TDAH en la edad adulta por uso de drogas.
El experto concreta que las personas con TDAH tienen, al menos, el doble de riesgo de empezar a consumir sustancias y de desarrollar un trastorno adictivo, y, por lo tanto, de desarrollar una patología dual. Los pacientes con TDAH tienen más riesgo de empezar a consumir cocaína y cannabisa edades más tempranas y de desarrollar una adicción que, por lo general, es más grave que en personas sin TDAH.
