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CHADD - Children and Adults with ADHD

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E. Clarke Ross is the CEO of CHADD

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posted 10/28/2009, comments (2)

ADHD and the Role of Government

Following receipt of our August 13, 2009 e-mail blast to our 68,000 constituents titled Get Involved-Health Care Reform and Congress-13 Principles to Consider, a gentleman asked to be removed from our mailing list. He was in his fifties and has lived with AD/HD his entire adult life. He commented that to deal with AD/HD, CHADD did not need to... Read more Chevron

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Deborah

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posted 10/21/2009, comments (2)

Lawrence's New ADHD Medication

My son Lawrence started kindergarten last year. It was kind of tough on him. The class was three hours long, and they only had a short, ten minute recess about halfway through. And unlike pre-school, there was a curriculum that had to be completed by the end of the year. Goodbye Show and Tell, hello learning by rote. His teacher was wonderful and... Read more Chevron

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posted 08/24/2009, comments (0)

Stimulant Medication Abuse in Teens

A couple months back, I posted information on how to recognize the signs of stimulant medication abuse. Today, a new study is being released with some shocking new numbers. Calls to poison control centers about this problem have jumped 76% over eight years. According to the study, which is to appear in the August issue of Pediatrics... Read more Chevron

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Merely Me

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posted 08/02/2009, comment (1)

ADHD Past and Present

When I was a kid back in the seventies ADHD as we know it now did not exist. Sure there were probably kids in my classroom who had this disorder but we just didn't have the diagnosis or the name for it. This is much akin to the fact that I didn't know people with autism existed until I was in my twenties and in college. Things... Read more Chevron

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thomas shannon

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27 year old ingaged with 2 kids

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posted 07/29/2009, comments (3)

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well ive lost 2 kids because of my adhd barly made it out of highschool now im living with friends cause i can keep a job,i can solely blame my mest up life on adhd imean how does one get born with adhd i dint ask for this all i want to do is live a normal life.all i want is to keep a job,pay my own bills,stop relying on help from friends and... Read more Chevron

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