Two medications used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) will now be covered under the provincial Children's Drug Plan.

Concerta and Strattera prescriptions now fall under the $15 per prescription limit. Sask Party MLA Joceline Schriemer made the announcement in Saskatoon Firday.

When asked about the risks of over-prescribing ADHD medications for children, Child Psychologist Dr. Peter Matthews says the opposite is true. He says many parents don't get their children diagnosed because to the stigma associated with Ritalin.

"I hope Concerta and Strattera will be a lot more reassuring than a Ritalin, which has been bandied around and has been a whipping boy of the Scientologists."

Ritalin is the main medication for ADHD, and can be sold as a street drug. However Matthews says neither Concerta nor Strattera can be broken down for street use.  Schriemer, a former Saskatoon Police Narcotics Officer even demonstrated how ritialin can be broken down and injected.

Six thousand people in Saskatchewan use ADHD medications, an annual cost of $2.5 million dollars.