The ADHD Skills Lab

The Real Reasons People Quit ADHD Medication

May 31, 2026·14 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Why do so many people start ADHD medication... and then quietly stop within a year or two? In this Research Recap, Skye and Will unpack a systematic literature review examining why over half of all patients discontinue or significantly reduce ADHD medication within 2 to 3 years of starting. This episode isn't about whether you should take medication. It's about something more practical: what the data actually found about why people stop, where expert assumptions conflict with what patients re...

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