CDC: Stimulant Prescriptions Rose Sharply Among Women

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Stimulants prescribed for women with ADHD rose 14% from 2020 to 2021, with particularly noteworthy increases in medication use for women in their 20s and 30s, a new study from the CDC reports.

commonly used in ADHD treatment in 2020-2021. The CDC arrived at these numbers by analyzing data from the Merative MarketScan Commercial Database, a national convenience sample of deidentified healthcare claims from enrollees in employer-sponsored insurance plans from 2016–2021. The percentage of enrollees with prescription stimulant fills rose from 3.6% in 2016 to 4.1% in 2021.

, 26.5% of whom said they had received a formal ADHD diagnosis within the last year. What’s more, nearly 22% of adult survey respondents said they began taking ADHD medication for the first time during the pandemic — among newly diagnosed adults, this number was 64%. Only 5.5% of adults said they stopped taking medication and only 4.5% decreased dosage during the pandemic.

reported changes in their treatment team during the pandemic with nearly a quarter using telehealth appointments for the first time. Among newly diagnosed adults, 57% began seeing an

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