Ofsted warns parents could be overmedicating their children as ritalin prescriptions double in a decade

Ofsted warns parents could be overmedicating their children as ritalin prescriptions double in a decade Ritalin use has more than doubled in the past ten years, the chief of Ofsted has claimed, warning that parents may be medicating their children instead of addressing behavioural problems.

Prescriptions for “smart drugs,” which are often used to tackle attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), reportedly increased to 1.5 million in 2017 – up from 700,000 a decade earlier. The Independent