Health Insurance is writing to doctors in Île-de-France to alert them to the explosion in the number of prescriptions for methylphenidate, better known by the trade name Ritalin, used in patients suffering from attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADHD), revealed Friday October 16 France Inter.
Methylphenidate is a psychostimulant that acts on the brain to help people with attention disorders concentrate better.
However, Health Insurance notes that, in one in five cases, Ritalin was not prescribed by one of these specialist doctors.
If there is today a sharp increase in prescriptions of these treatments by doctors, it is because we started from very low, France having long been resistant to the use of these treatments.