Health Canada reinstates Adderall XR.(Drug overview)

Clinical Psychiatry News,  October, 2005  by Splete, Heidi

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Patients in Canada with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are now able to obtain Adderall XR.

Sales of the controlled-release amphetamine mixed with salts, distributed by Shire Pharmaceuticals Group PLC, had been suspended earlier this year in Canada after the release of postmarketing reports of sudden death in 12 children in the United States who had taken the drug between 1999 and 2003.

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At Shire's request, Health Canada, that country's drug regulatory agency, convened the New Drug Committee, a three-member panel of experts in pediatric cardiology, pediatric ...

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