“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can seriously help another without helping himself.” – Charles Dudley Warner Katherine Jahnke has a son with ADD and decided to start a CHADD support group in Bravos, Texas. One reason was to break down the myths and stereotypes of children […]
Florida State University Economics Professor Farasat Bokhari co-authored a study published in the journal Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety that found wide variations in the distribution of stimulant medication to treat ADHD. The researchers found that the counties where ADHD drug use was the highest had higher per capita income, lower unemployment rates, greater population density
Brooke Shields in a New York Time op ed piece criticizes Tom Cruise’s ” ridiculous rant” against her using medication and therapy for her postpartum depression. To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of
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As I said I’d do in a previous post, Here’s the contact information for the Minister of Health in BC and the provincial drug plan. I hope to get the contact info from other provinces soon. So if you live in BC and think that BC Pharmacare should cover the long term ADD medications like
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CADDRA (Canadian ADD Resource Alliance) put on a great ADHD conference. It’s hard to believe it’s their first one. I was wrong on my Sunday post on the numbers of attendee’s conference, it wasn’t 200 but 225 people at the conference. Met a lot of interesting and very friendly people, and learned a lot about
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