YMCA using children with ADHD as scapegoat bait for their marketing machine. Update: See follow up post to this with new information. The YMCA has done many good things for many people, they’re a large multimillion dollar organization with a big impact on many members of the community in a very wide variety of ways. […]
Here’s a short video from NBC’s The Today Show titled Does my child have ADHD? Today show host Matt Lauer interviews Dr. Steve Kurtz, the clinical director of New York University’s Child Study Center, Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; and Clinical Director, Institute for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and Behavior Disorders, and Beth Kaplanak
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The next CHADD Vancouver meeting is, Tuesday May 19th. Topic: Feeding Your Child who has ADHD Speaker: Joy Kiddie, Registered Dietician. She’s done research on ADHD and nutrition with Dr. Margaret Weiss, head of the BC ADHD Clinic at Children’s Hospital. Here’s her website Date: May 20th Time: 6.30-8.30pm Location: 2450 Ontario St. Raven Song
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Update3 The Vancouver Sun today Wed may 13th 09 has and covered the story on page A11. Also The Victoria Times Colonist is also on their story in todays paper on page B7. The penalty for breaking the law could include up to a $10,000 fine and a year in jail. “The penalties are up
Here are the notes and the links for my presentation ADHD – Busting The Myths, Breaking The Stigma, Showing Reality, One Post And Tweet At A Time for Mental Health Camp Vancouver April 25, 2009. I won’t be able to cover all this material during the session so I have some extra info here. Tell
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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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
UPDATE: the 500 million figure is incorrect, it’s actually Billions of dollars yearly. The BCMA 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 70, 80 etc. See
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 »
September 14-20th, 2008 is National Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Awareness week in the US, ADDA, CHADD USA and ADDitude Magazine are sponsoring ADHD Awareness Week activities. Unfortunately up here in Canada, we’re 5-10 years behind the US when it comes to dealing with ADHD and adult ADHD. We still haven’t had a single ADD
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