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
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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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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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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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