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In this 1-hour session, Joseph Biederman, MD discusses ADHD medications and how to handle psychiatric comorbidities such as: depression, anxiety, phobia, OCD, Tourette’s, nictotine dependence, and alcoholism.
Only 20% of ADHD adults are diagnosed and treated.
So most of what clinicians will see in clinical care first are other mental and behavioral health disorders that accompany ADHD.
40% of ADHD patients have nicotine dependence.
30% of ADHD patients show alcohol abuse.
50% of ADHD patients have major depressive disorder.
50% of ADHD patients have anxiety disorder.
If you don’t know about or treat the underlying ADHD, standard medical protocols will not relieve the other disorders we’ve just mentioned.