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 […]
CADDAC’S ADHD And Substance Use Disorder Peer-Led Support Groups Read More »
Here’s yet another example of what happens when you don’t diagnose and treat ADHD, many of them will find other ways of treating it and one popular way is self medication via drugs and alcohol. In the journal Addiction, there was a study of 600 adolescent cannabis abusers in outpatient treatment. 96% of them had
30% of Teenage Cannabis Users in Outpatient Study had ADHD Read More »
As a follow up to my last post, Here are 5 more studies on the well-known (among those familiar with ADHD) links between ADHD and substance abuse. Or 5 more reasons why governments should start properly diagnosing and treating adults and children with ADHD now, or pay 100 times the price later in addictions and
ADHD and Substance Abuse 5 more Clinical Studies Read More »
A study in the Journal Alcohol and Alcoholism looked at 91 adults with alcohol dependence and 61 adults with multiple substance addiction and they determined if these patients were affected by ADHD. RESULTS: 20.9% WURS-k (Wender Utah Rating Scale) 23.1% (DSM-IV diagnostic criteria) of the alcohol-dependent patients showed evidence of retrospective ADHD affliction in childhood.
Study 33.3% of Alcoholics had ADHD, 65.5% of Substance Abuse Patients Had ADHD. Read More »
When politicians have something to confess, it’s usually after everyone knows about and they can stay in denial no longer. For some denial never ends until the cell door closes. Political courage is unfortunately in short supply these days. That’s why it’s refreshing to see a politician admit a something potentially politically damaging on his
Ontario Health Minister Abused Stimulants in Past, Has the Guts to Admit It. Read More »