All politicians talk about Substance Use Disorder, homelessness and crime. Almost none talk about the first Pillar in the City Of Vancouver’s Four Pillars official Drug Policy. Prevention. So I’m asking politicians if they would commit to taking action on prevention of SUD, homelessness and crime, specifically on ADHD. Why should politicians care about ADHD?
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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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
IF They can find a BC psychologist who is properly trained in ADHD, some are not. IF their waitlist is not closed. IF they can wait for x months for an ADHD assessment. This is how BC residents can finally access ADHD assessments that the current BCNDP govt and the past BCLiberals governments constantly denied
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There will likely be a Canadian federal election called tomorrow. I’m a political science major whose hobby is politics. I had to get a separate politics twitter account @pqpolitics because I was putting so much politics on my ADHD twitter account @petequily. So being the curious type, I did site search in Google for ADHD on
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