A study in Denmark finds that women who smoke during pregnancy are nearly twice as likely to have children with ADD. After controlling for low birth weight of babies, poor newborn health status, young maternal age and low socioeconomic status, smoking mothers were nearly twice as likely to have children with ADHD than mothers who […]
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WebMD has a good article talking about how children with Bipolar are sometimes misdiagnosed as having ADD. This can be harmful to the person with bipolar since ADD stimulant medications can trigger mania in people with bipolar. Sometimes an ADDer is misdiagnosed with bipolar and sometimes the person has both. They compare and contrast the
Here’s a detailed article that talks about the impact of ADHD in America (sadly health.MSN.com article deleted). Here’s Dr. Lenard Adler, director of the Adult ADHD Program at NYU School of Medicine, describing one case of ADHD. “I have an executive who, prior to treatment, got his standard yearly review at work,” he reports. “It read
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
Update: check out Part One and Part Three of the Crystal Meth Series of posts More on the missing (in the public media at least) ADD connection with crystal meth. The Journal of Addictive Diseases has an article called “Cognitive deficits among methamphetamine users with ADHD symptomatology.” The preliminary data suggests that executive function deficits