Dr Charles Parker has a good article about sleep and ADHD where he provides specific treatment considerations for any ADHD symptoms associated with sleep disturbance. Untreated each of these issues aggravates symptoms of ADHD. Many adults and children with ADHD have sleep problems, it’s almost a diagnostic sign of ADHD. ADDers often have problems with […]
Update: They’ve just put the article online, you can check it out and comment on it or rate it here. I’ve been quoted in an article on Women with Adult ADHD in More Magazine (the Canadian edition) in the Feb/March Issue p. 121-4 written by Zoe Kessler who has ADHD and talks about her and
Pete Interviewed on Women With Adult ADHD in More Magazine Read More »
Here are my notes from a talk given by Vancouver based Dr. Randy Paterson, author and psychologist at Changeways private clinic at the Vancouver Wellness show Feb 7th 2009 Here are my notes on his talk. People often engage in actions and behaviors that if you keep asking them “and if you get that, what
Here’s yet another example of what happens when you don’t diagnose and treat ADHD, many of them will find other ways of treating it and one popular way is self medication via drugs and alcohol. In the journal Addiction, there was a study of 600 adolescent cannabis abusers in outpatient treatment. 96% of them had
30% of Teenage Cannabis Users in Outpatient Study had ADHD Read More »
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 »