Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 50:1-2 (2009), pp 180193 doi:

      Psychopharmacology: concepts and opinions
        about the use of stimulant medications
                               James M. Swanson and Nora D. Volkow

This perspective piece on the topic of psychophar- Many reviews have been published to summarize macology was requested to be opinion-driven and the plethora of studies that followed, including conceptual in nature, rather than a systematic influential early reviews in this journal (see Barkley, review or a state-of-the-science article. Recently we 1977) and from the European perspective by Taylor (Volkow & Swanson, 2008a)...