Homeless Adults had 5 Times Higher Rates Of ADHD. Screen Shelters For ADHD

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27% of homeless adults had ADHD, a 33-year prospective, controlled follow-up study showed.  “A 33-year prospective, controlled, follow-up of clinic-referred 6- to 12-year-old Caucasian boys with ADHD (probands; mean = 8), at mean age 41 (follow-up [FU] = 41). Comparisons: children without ADHD from the same medical center were matched for age and socioeconomic status

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Ask Candidates To Support ADHD Bill C329. An Act To Establish A National Framework Respecting ADHD

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Please ask Federal Candidates To Support ADHD Bill C-329. An Act To Establish A National Framework Respecting ADHD. This is a private member’s bill by NDP MP Heather McPherson, Edmonton Strathcona, whose son Mac has gone public with having ADHD. It went to first reading, but there is a lottery to decide which bills go

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Substance Use disorders in adolescents with ADHD. Dr. Margaret Weiss

CADDAC’S ADHD And Substance Use Disorder Peer-Led Support Groups

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This is great news by CADDAC and Health Canada to create ADHD and substance use disorder peer-led support groups in the fall. They’re looking now for peer support facilitators now with lived experience who are willing to be trained and run them. Will be offered a stipend for their time. Hope people with ADHD ask

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We All Have ADD Sometimes. It’s Not A Thing. Explain Adult ADHD

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Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. We All Have ADD Sometimes. It’s Not A Thing. “I was up late last night not sleeping. Thinking about how to to describe ADHD to someone who doesn’t understand it or doubts it. The Stigma that comes with it. How

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