Please tell BC Pharmacare and health minister Terry Lake why they should cover long-acting ADHD medications vs just the short acting ones. CADDAC, CADDRA and some BC Psychiatrists and doctors are organizing this. Deadline is June 1st, 2016. If you live in BC and have a family member with ADHD or have ADHD yourself and […]
Do you know someone who has been treated for years for depression but they don’t get better? Are their antidepressant medications not working? Do they really have treatment-resistant depression? Or do they have undiagnosed and untreated ADHD that the medical system often ignores and neglects? In this post, I will show that a very large
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There’s a cool new online tool that allows people to compare prescription drug prices by location. It’s called Pharmacy Compass and it’s by Pacific Blue Cross a private health insurance company. It’s just available in BC. Canada wide I’m sure some ADHD Adults and parents of ADHD children in BC & Canada will want to
Like medications for any other mental or physical condition, medications for ADHD can also have some side effects. Unfortunately, many doctors are not properly trained on ADHD in medical school. For example, here in Vancouver BC Canada, UBC medical students only get one hour on ADHD. So unless they went out to learn more about
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So now you know how the US Government feels about Adults with ADHD. 2nd class citizens? An after thought? We’ll eventually get around to you, but you’re not really that important. 8 Years. Count em. Almost a decade. It has been used off label for quite some time, but now it’s “officially approved” by the
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