Today’s Vancouver Sun Monday April 13th 2009 has an article on Adult ADHD on p A5. The title is B.C. lacks resources to treat, diagnose adults with ADHD by Amy O’Brian. Web version is here. They interviewed a local adult with ADHD, John Scrivin. Please check it out and let others that might be interested […]
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Just to let people in the Vancouver area know there’s a new ADHD related parent support group in Ladner BC. Here are the details. Ladner Parent Support Circles A bi-weekly parent gathering with a focus on parenting children with ADHD or BEHAVIOUR challenges. Each self-help parent-support Circle is led by trained facilitators. Location: Reach Child
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UPDATE: the 500 million figure is incorrect, it’s actually Billions of dollars yearly. The BCMA (now Doctors of BC) underestimated the cost because they only counted the cost of children with ADHD ie 18 and under. They didn’t include adults with ADHD which are far more numerous than kids with ADHD, i.e., 19 years to
On Tues Feb 17th, I’ll be doing a presentation at CHADD Vancouver (Children and Adults with ADHD), an international ADHD support group that has monthly meetings in Vancouver. Topic: Get organized, set goals, and actually follow through. It will be an interactive presentation. Bring along one very specific goal that you’ve been having trouble with,
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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 »