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Trends in Stimulant Prescription Fills Among Children, Adults Trends in Stimulant Prescription Fills Among Children, Adults
Prescriptions for ADHD medications increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily among adults, according to this CDC report.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health & Prevention Journal Article Source Type: news
‘Children with ADHD are being failed’: parents share their experiences of an overwhelmed system
Since the pandemic there has been a steep rise in cases of ADHD among children. Here, experts discuss why, parents describe their struggles and campaigners say what needs to changeAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that is shrouded in misunderstanding, uncertainty and controversy. There is, for example, no definitive agreement on how many people have the condition. In the UK, one survey has put the incident rate in childhood (five to 15 years old) at just over 2% (3.62% of boys and 0.85% of girls). ADHD support groups cite figures of 5%.One UK study found 11% with symptoms but...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Anthony Tags: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Society Parents and parenting Health Mental health Family Life and style Education Science NHS Children Coronavirus Charities Source Type: news
What ’ s Driving the Demand for ADHD Drugs Like Adderall
For at least the last six months, Adderall—the stimulant medication commonly used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)—has been in short supply in the U.S. That seems to be in part because demand is growing as more people are diagnosed with ADHD, a condition that can make it difficult to focus, remember details, control impulses, or sit still. About 8% more people in the U.S. filled a stimulant prescription in 2021 versus 2020, according to federal data. Other studies suggest ADHD diagnoses are increasing across age groups.
Why? And is that apparent spike in diagnoses cause for concern?
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Source: TIME: Health - April 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Mental Health Wellbeing Source Type: news
Pre-Workout Powders Are Gaining Popularity. Do They Work?
If you’ve trained your social-media algorithms to serve you even a little bit of fitness content, scrolling your TikTok feed might feel like wandering the aisles of a vitamin store. Workout vlogs often feature a prominently displayed tub of something called pre-workout powder: Just mix a scoop into a glass of water, down it before exercising, and you’ll instantly become more efficient and energized during your workout.
That’s the hoped-for benefit, anyway. The reality is more of a gamble.
“Pre-workout,” a packaged powder that contains at least a dozen supplements—and usually more—...
Source: TIME: Health - April 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized Diet & Nutrition healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
ADHD Med Prescriptions Spiked Early in Pandemic
FRIDAY, March 31, 2023 -- Prescriptions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new government report shows.
The trend may reflect both greater awareness among adults of ADHD symptoms...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 31, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Prescriptions for ADHD treatments surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, CDC report shows
Prescriptions for stimulants often used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder surged during the pandemic, especially among adults, a new study found.
Source: CNN.com - Health - March 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Our Relationship With Time Is Changing —Maybe for the Better
It wasn’t long after the pandemic began that people around the world started to notice something weird was going on. As the rhythms of daily life changed, some people’s days seemed to run together; others felt theirs stretched on indefinitely. The sense of what an hour felt like was corroding. News outlets filled with attempts to explain what was happening.
Ruth Ogden, an experimental psychologist who studies time perception at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K., says she had only ever gotten maybe one interview request before the pandemic, and has since received at least a hundred. And while the stud...
Source: TIME: Science - March 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Lily Rothman Tags: Uncategorized Psychology Source Type: news
Predictors of risky driving among teen drivers with ADHD during U.S. COVID-19 shelter in place orders - Garner AA, Epstein JN, Tamm L, Simon JO, Fisher DL, Kiefer AW, MacPherson RP.
Factors associated with continued driving during shelter in place orders have been examined in a community sample of typically developing teen drivers, but not in teens diagnosed with Attention/Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Our objective was to ex...
Source: SafetyLit - February 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) are a set of human-made chemicals that are found in the environment worldwide. More than 2 billion pounds of PCBs were purposely manufactured in the United States and sold by Monsanto under the trade name Aroclor. They were banned from sale in 1979 when the public learned that they were likely carcinogens. Now, these chemicals are known to cause cancer, disrupt hormones, and are implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD and autism. Unfortunately, although Aroclors were banned from sale, ...
Source: The Cornflower - January 17, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Miles Dietz-Castel Tags: Blog Consumer Health Public Health speaker spotlight series webinar Source Type: news
The Online Therapy Bubble Is Bursting
Hebah Arroyo, an Illinois nurse practitioner, began working for the startup Done in the spring of 2020. She was drawn to the San Francisco-based company’s promise: to provide stigma-free online ADHD care, including prescription refills and virtual sessions with clinicians, for as little as $79 a month.
“It was my first telehealth role,” she says, “so that was exciting for me.”
Three months later, she resigned. “I quickly became unhappy because there was not any support for the clinicians” and the quality of care was lacking, Arroyo says. She regularly saw four patients an hour, a g...
Source: TIME: Health - November 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized feature healthscienceclimate Mental Health Source Type: news
InnovationRx: Cerebral Stops ADHD Prescribing; Plus, Big Sales For Covid Vaccines
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Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - May 4, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Alex Knapp, Forbes Staff Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Coronavirus Editors' Pick editors-pick Source Type: news
How the Tokyo Olympics Changed the Conversation About Athletes ’ Mental Health
Even before Simone Biles threw the Olympics off its axis, Jessica Bartley knew mental health issues were weighing heavily on the athletes in Tokyo. Bartley, a psychologist and the director of mental health services for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, says her team received about 10 requests daily during the Games to support athletes’ mental health needs.
Most of the calls did not come directly from athletes, but from “a tip from someone around the athlete, who alerted us to a situation,” she says. These requests involved everything from struggles while in quarantine due to COVID-19 protocols, t...
Source: TIME: Health - August 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park/Tokyo Tags: Uncategorized olympics Tokyo Olympics Source Type: news
Finding the right treatment plan to manage ADHD in adults
“If I don’t see any improvements in your performance, I’m afraid I will have to let you go.”
My brother, Adam, would often hear these words from his supervisor at work. He is 32 and works as a project manager at a biotechnology firm. As the youngest of three brothers, we always thought that his lack of attention, frequent forgetfulness and impulsivity were due to the fact that we were all quite protective of him while growing up.
Soon after the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 when remote working…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - July 28, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Alexis Gurriero Source Type: news
Face covering in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders, ADHD
(JAMA Network)What The Study Did:Researchers assessed the feasibility of using positive behavior supports to promote the use of face coverings in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders and/or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) attending a summer program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 17, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Will COVID-19 Result in More ADHD Cases? Will COVID-19 Result in More ADHD Cases?
While it ' s possible that residual effects from the COVID pandemic could lead to an eruption in ADHD cases, a recent debate between experts underscored that more data are needed.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - May 13, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
