Andrew Weaver Supports Screen For ADHD In BC Rehabs, Homeless Shelters, Ask RCMP & Civic Cops To Screen People Arrested For ADHD, & Require All BC Doctors To Have Mandatory CME Courses On ADHD

I wish we had more politicians who support people with ADHD, as Andrew Weaver does. All politicians talk about Substance Use Disorder, homelessness and crime. Almost none talk about the first Pillar in the City Of Vancouver’s Four Pillars official Drug Policy. Prevention. So I’m asking politicians if they would commit to taking action on

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Kareem Allam Has Committed To Screen For ADHD In Vancouver Rehabs, Homeless Shelters & Safe Consumption Sites

I spoke with Vancouver Liberal leader and Vancouver mayoral candidate Kareem Allam after the Dunbar debate and asked him about the one pillar of the City of Vancouver’s 4-pillar drug policy that all politicians ignore. Prevention. Specifically on ADHD. I explained to him that people with ADHD had huge rates of substance use disorder, homelessness

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Pete Fry (Now Vancouver’s Mayor) Has Committed to Screen For ADHD In Vancouver Rehabs, & Homeless Shelters

I talked to VanGreen’s leader and Vancouver Mayoral candidate, Pete Fry, after the Dunbar debate in Vancouver, and asked him about the one pillar of the city of Vancouver’s 4-pillar drug policy that all politicians ignore. Prevention. Specifically on ADHD. I explained to him that people with ADHD had huge rates of substance use disorder,

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Ask To Screen For ADHD In Rehabs, Homeless Shelters & Arrestees

If you look at the decades of research, we ADHD adults and teens have much higher rates of substance use disorder, homelessness, and crime. But if we are diagnosed with ADHD and treated with ADHD meds? 40 years of research shows we have lower rates of all three. But the problem is that the majority

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

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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