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When do you decide to switch stimulants vs. continuing to maximize dosage in ADHD treatment?
Answer from: at Community Practice
I definitely agree with Dr. @Cohen about the core concept that this question appears to be asking - "When do you know if a stimulant is just not working for your patients symptoms, and/or when do you decide to change to a different stimulant?" Before answering the second part of this core question, ...
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Answer from: at Community Practice
The question suggests that the problem for which an answer is being sought is the ineffectiveness of the stimulant (otherwise, why "maximize dose"?). In my practice, when a stimulant is ineffective, my first tendency is to return to the diagnostic question to make certain that ADHD is what I’m...