Side effects of ADHD drugs shock parents

Kim Colliers 7-year-old daughter could not stop crying.

Less than 24 hours earlier, the child had started taking Vyvanse, a drug prescribed for the treatment of ADHD.

The distraught mother suggested a bike ride to distract the inconsolable child.

The two set out for a park near their home outside Alliston, Ont.

The girl pedalled and sobbed.

Then, Collier recalled, She screamed at me. She said, I want to die.

A car drove toward them along the residential street.

She looked at me and she said, Im going to ride my bike into that car. And then she said to me, You dont care if I live or die. I literally had to restrain her.

I took her off of the drug.

Collier, who did not want her daughter named, is one of scores of parents who contacted the Star after its investigation Wednesday found nearly 600 cases of Canadian kids suffering serious, sometimes fatal side effects suspected to have been caused by ADHD medications in the past 10 years.

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