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Study: About 29 calls a day for poison control centers about children exposed to ADHD medications

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Poison control centers receive an average of 29 calls a day about children exposed to ADHD medications.

In the study published in the journal  Pediatrics, researchers say the amounts of calls increased by 61% from January 2000 to December 2014.

Nearly a quarter of the calls were for teens abusing or misusing the pills.

About 9,000 of the 156,000 calls were related to teens between the ages of 13-19 possibly attempting suicide.