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30 September 2010 - Scientists Reveal 
ADHD Is A Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorder

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October 2009 - Medications:- Concerta, Ritalin LA, and Strattera are now listed on the PBS for adults who were diagnosed “prior to the age of 18 years”.

 

 


Media

"Why is ADHD so under-diagnosed and treated?

The child and adolescent component of the 2000 National Mental Health Survey reported a rate of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) of about 6%, essentially identical to a recent analysis of data from throughout the world.

Yet the highest rates of medication for ADHD in Australia are no more than about 1.5%. What is happening to the other 75% of young people whose lives and those of their families are impaired by ADHD? Are they even being identified, far less receiving behavioural or other intervention? ............."

virtualmedicalcentre.com   23 January 2009
(Source: ADDults with ADHD (NSW) Inc: January 2009.)

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2008 - February 10, The Sun-Herald
"NEW FRONT OPENS IN ADHD WAR"

ADHD Prescriptions Brandtman debunks myths

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Doctors not overprescribing for ADHD: report - see link below

 


 

 

 

 

 

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