Are small people seriously over-medicated? Big people under-medicated?

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3. Maybe it is an I'd never noticed.

For instance, say child X is doing well on 10mg of Ritilan, and child Y is doing well on 20mg of Ritlin.

Reading that in an article I would tend to think of child Y as being somehow more ADD. I would probably be less likely to think, "Child X might be a ninth grade girl and child Y might be a male senior who plays offensive tackle on the school's football team."

Because I am not sensitized to thinking of dosage as a funtion of weight because it isn't discussed much.

But just because I don't encounter it much doesn't mean it isn't addressed... a doctor knows what YOU weigh when writing a prescription and may well be taking it into account as a matter of course.