The study was hailed in media and used for new prescription guidelines.
But the actual disastrous results were concealed. No one – except the
researchers involved – knew that 26% of the subjects receiving the “ADHD drug”
Concerta in high dose relapsed into addiction the first week when released from prison, or that 41% had relapsed
the first two weeks.
This is a
short story about research fraud and how one can turn a disastrous result into
a success. How one can recommend “the new treatment” as an important step to
help prisoners – even fooling the government to issue guidelines saying that the
treatment seems to make prisoners drug free.
The full article http://jannel.se/Research.Fraud.ADHD.pdf
Janne Larsson
Reporter/Researcher
