Janine Booth assesses the recent report on whether ADHD, autism and mental health conditions are ‘over-diagnosed’. This has also been published on the Workers’ Liberty website and on Janine’s personal website. Over-diagnosed? The review that former Health Secretary Wes Streeting commissioned into rising diagnoses of ADHD, autism and mental health conditions in young people has published its…
If the government implements all the measures recommended in the Report, it will significantly improve the lives of ADHDers.
However, the report contains itself within a medical or individual model. It repeatedly refers to ‘treating ADHD’ and its recommendations are all about ‘interventions’ with individuals rather than changing systems to remove barriers.
Janine Booth and Liz Yeates have written this article about the current ADHD medication shortage for Asylum, the radical mental health magazine. Read more about Asylum here. We are writing this article while driving around to various places to obtain ADHD medication for Liz. She has had to take the afternoon off work, and if…
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