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Doctors in England told not to start new patients on ADHD drugs due to shortage
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2023
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From the article: Henry Shelford, the CEO and a co-founder of ADHD UK, said: “ADHD is a disability and the sudden removal of medication is akin to removing a wheelchair from a disabled person that needs it.”
Ok, but you’re still refusing to let another disabled person have a wheelchair in the first place so…
Are you saying the CEO of the charity organization, ADHD UK, is making the drug policy?
No, (I get why you asked that, I should have worded my comment differently) it’s just funny to me this idea of fairness is to exclude those who haven’t yet been afforded the thing that would put them on more even footing with neurotypical individuals. I did read the article, I just am surprised that that’s how someone would say well let’s not help anyone that we’re not already helping, because fair’s fair. I also noticed it only seems to include 3 medications, so there are other options. I just kind of chuckled at the idea of no new wheelchairs angry face emoji
As far as I have followed this issue, this is a US problem. Pharmaceuticals are treated very differently in Europe. For example, there’s no public ads for prescription drugs allowed, meaning that patients usually don’t push doctors to prescribe random stuff they've heard about on TV.
In the UK the NHS uses NICE guidelines for prescriptions. A doctor would be expected to justify prescribing outside of this.
Additionally, ADHD charities report that it is under diagnosed in people in the UK. With many parents suspicious of medicating children.
Unfortunately, that study was done a couple of hundred years after the UK lost control of North Carolina, so it doesn't support the claim that ADHD medication is overprescribed in the UK.
This is a little misleading. Like most macro trends, the actual situation is far more complicated. Here's a study describing under diagnosis of ADHD in adults
While it's likely true that the condition is overdiagnosed in adolescent populations, it's also widely acknowledged that ADHD is less commonly diagnosed once in adulthood.
North Carolina is neither in the UK or Europe
Your quote doesn't say they calculate the result globally. It's estimated based on the results in Carolina. They say estimate because the don't have the data to say it is true.
This suggests about 1% of the UK population has ADHD and isn't diagnosed. The would be more than 600,000 people.
You were replying to a comment on ADHD in the UK
This used to be true and perhaps still is in some places, but in some European countries the laws have changed a bit recently which means bad time for pharma companies. They now don't have enough finances to bribe doctors effectively. (Source: family member in European pharma.)
I had to jump through multiple hoops and complete a nearly perfect CAARS test before I could even get into contact with my psych. And then it was roughly a couple months talking with her before I was diagnosed. All in podunk USA. So it’s not rampant everywhere, especially since it’s nearly impossible to even find a psychiatrist within 150 miles of my house.