How would we measure if it’s being overprescribed?
It’s more likely still under-diagnosed.
The pandemic threw such a big spanner in the works that so many of us started to struggle enough to notice it wasn’t normal. This put the mental health system under significant strain. More people than ever have been diagnosed.
In the US, an ill-guided rule that limits the manufactured capacity of stimulants, not by demand, but by an arbitrary number, impact people recently.
They couldn’t refill their scripts. Supply effectively ran out.
> temporarily helpful to help someone with ADHD get their life in order and make meaningful lifestyle changes in order to get the symptoms under control.
A wheelchair is temporarily helpful, so are reading glasses. They could help someone to get their life in order, and make meaningful lifestyle changes to get their symptoms under control.
Somehow I think we’d both agree even after that you wouldn’t take someone’s wheelchair or reading glasses from them?
It’s more likely still under-diagnosed.
The pandemic threw such a big spanner in the works that so many of us started to struggle enough to notice it wasn’t normal. This put the mental health system under significant strain. More people than ever have been diagnosed.
In the US, an ill-guided rule that limits the manufactured capacity of stimulants, not by demand, but by an arbitrary number, impact people recently.
They couldn’t refill their scripts. Supply effectively ran out.
> temporarily helpful to help someone with ADHD get their life in order and make meaningful lifestyle changes in order to get the symptoms under control.
A wheelchair is temporarily helpful, so are reading glasses. They could help someone to get their life in order, and make meaningful lifestyle changes to get their symptoms under control.
Somehow I think we’d both agree even after that you wouldn’t take someone’s wheelchair or reading glasses from them?