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ADHD - Petition to increase NHS provisions and funding for Adults with ADHD

Susan L. Dunn Morua | 06.07.2009 17:53 | Education | Health | Birmingham | South Coast

We are asking the Prime Minister to ensure that NHS service provisions and funding arrangements for services for adults with ADHD are reviewed and revised urgently.

Would be interested in signing the petition which we (AADD-UK) have placed on the 10 Downing Street website and then forwarding it to others who might find it relevant. We don’t usually send out emails like this, but this is so important that we felt it was necessary to contact everybody and if it isn’t relevant please accept our apologies and disregard this email.

 http://www.drhallowell.com/resources/index.html

Here is a link to the full petition:

 http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/adhdadults/

If we can get 500 or more signatures, the petition will be either sent to officials who work for the Prime Minister in Downing Street, or will be sent to the Department of Health for a response so we are asking you to read the petition, and if you agree with it, to sign it, and then forward this email to anyone else who might be interested. More than 500 signatures increases the amount of attention the Government will pay to the petition and will help them learn about ADHD.

Note: if you sign the petition, you will be sent an email asking you to confirm that you want your name to be added by clicking a link within the email. It's possible that this email could land in your spam filters or junk mail folders, so please check these if you do not get a confirmation email.

And please let us know if we can be of further assistance to you.


Kind regards,


Susan

Susan L. Dunn Morua

Adult Attention Deficit Disorder UK (AADD-UK)
 http://aadd.org.uk/
Bristol & South East Wales Adult ADHD Support Group
 http://bristoladhdadults.googlepages.com/

01761 462553

Susan L. Dunn Morua
- e-mail: bristoladhdadults@googlemail.com
- Homepage: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/adhdadults/

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More info please

07.07.2009 13:13

I would be willing to sign a petition to request greater resources for people with ADHD. However, this depends on what sort of help is being requested by this organisation. Personally I would not suggest greater resources are spent on pharmacological interventions due to the potentially harmful side effects or chemical cosh effects of such medications. There needs to be much greater understanding of children with ADHD, as they are over-represented in the numbers of children permanently excluded from school and amongst those held in youth offending institutions. I would ask that the demands of the petition are made more explicit. Thanks.

Bob


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Let the people with ADHD decide what works for them

08.07.2009 11:07

 http://www.drhallowell.com/resources/index.html
 http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/adhdadults/

If a person has ADHD as their sole diagnosis then, therapy and or alternative healing such as theta dna and or a healthy diet and or good excercise may work for some people with ADD / ADHD, many people with the condition do also need stimulants like Adderall or Dexedrine. In around 1920 these were completely legal substances with no need for a prescription.

The USA are much more realistc in their approach to treatment options when compared to the UK. In the UK there is only one Medicine licenced in the British National Formulary [BNF], and it is only licenced for children and in general terms the NHS has very little or more often no training or experience of people with ADD / ADHD.

These issues leave alot of potential for accidental malpractice by perhaps unknowingly mis-diagnosing or underprescribing for Adults or Children with ADD / ADHD.

NHS UK - WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE, OR COCA TEA IF YOU PREFER !

Please read "Answers to Distraction" by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey

 http://www.adhdrelief.com/famous.html
 http://www.adult-child-add-adhd.com/categories/general/...e.php
 http://www.addiss.co.uk.
 http://www.adders.org
 http://aadduk.proboards85.com/
 http://www.drhallowell.com/resources/index.html

or speak to Susan from
Bristol & South East Wales Adult ADHD Support Group
 http://bristoladhdadults.googlepages.com/
Related Link:  http://www.drhallowell.com/resources/index.html

An Adult with ADHD


Quote from professor Emeritus

08.07.2009 14:52

ADHD in the 1920's
ADHD in the 1920's

professor Emeritus Albert C. Germann tells a story that goes some-
thing like this:
You and your partner are police officers on foot patrol sometime during the
late 1920's. On this particular evening, you and your partner-we'll call him
Nick-walk into a restaurant on your beat and find a couple and their young
child enjoying a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs. As you get closer to the
table, you see that both the man and his wife are drinking a glass of red wine
with their pasta. Now, times being what they are, and the two of you being the
dutiful policemen that you are, you place the couple under arrest and take
their child into protective custody.
After work, you and Nick go unwind with other officers of your department
in that ritual known to policemen as "choir practice." As you stand around dis-
cussing the events of your day and all the arrests you made, you and Nick, still
in uniform light up two marijuana cigarettes and tell your buddies about that
poor couple you arrested just a few hours previous. Does this make you and
Nick hypocrites? Not at all; in the late 1920's, marijuana was not illegal. Nor,
for that matter, was cocaine.
Now suppose it is 1994. You and Nick, who have somehow managed to
arrive at this present time without aging, are out again on patrol and wander
into this same restaurant-which, despite a few remodelings and a name
change to "Rubio's Pasta Palace," has remained essentially unchanged. And
there, also untouched by age, is the couple and their child. Except this time,
instead of enjoying a glass of red wine together, the man and woman are shar-
ing a marijuana cigarette. As dutiful as ever, you and Nick arrest the couple,
take their child into protective custody, and tell your buddies about this ill-
fated couple while all of you sit around at a local bar drinking a few beers.
Because, as everyone knows, marijuana is illegal in 1995.

An Adult with ADHD


rIGHT hONORABLE sH ELFS?

02.08.2009 11:14

Maybe more people should just ask directly, local, mem baRs of p aRliamean t and judsickiaR y or prolice 4 some of their own "medical pro-visions", paid fore by the tax payer, since some might say, they seam not to have tOOO much dI FFF oCCULT y, pro -curing t hem 4 their right honorable sh elfs?

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i have no idea how it works...

is it a code of sigh lance or Just plain nonsense.

forgive me i must be a bit thick or stupid or something.

p.s. i started paying tax when i was twelve years of age ......

An Adult with ADHD
- Homepage: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/adhdadults/


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