Comment on NHS ADHD spending over budget by £164m as unregulated clinics boom
yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks agoPeople with ADHD are a massively under-reported casualty of the war on drugs. Can’t cope with the demands of modern life? Too bad, the enemy wants your meds!
We had to go with a private diagnosis for my son because the schools won’t play ball. Even now they’re stonewalling the assessor who just needs their input to make the diagnosis official. Our boy has always been at his best in the classroom due to being the biggest extrovert in the family, so he hasn’t struggled with lessons enough yet to warrant any of their vanishingly thin SEND provision.