Clinical Trial

Many children, ages 6 to 17, suffer from a disease called Attention Deficit-Hyper Disorder(ADHD). This disease causes kids (and later, adults) to be extremely hyper and not able to focus in a normal setting. Due to the increasing problems of this disease, many clinical trials have been attempted to try to find a drug that helps with the symptoms and affects of this disease. In this double blind trial, doctors tried the drug atomoxetine. A double blind trial is where neither the patient nor the doctor administering the drug know if the injection or capsule is atomoxetine or a placebo. Only a third party of scientists and doctors know which is which, but they never see the patient nor know of their name or other information. A placebo is known as a "sugar pill", because it is an inactive subtance that looks like medicine but contains absolutely no medicinal affects. This is used in clinical trials to see if the trial drug actually works or if the improvement is a mental state of mind.