• @ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
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      121 year ago

      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.

        • AnyOldName3
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          101 year ago

          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.

        • Tippon
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          31 year ago

          North Carolina is neither in the UK or Europe

            • @ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
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              41 year ago

              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.

              ADHD administrative prevalence (based on rates of diagnosis and/or prescriptions) in children and adolescents in the UK has been estimated to fall between 0.2 and 0.9% since the mid-2000s (39). These rates remain below community prevalence estimates in the UK estimated at around 2.2% in 1999 and 2005 (55, 56), with more recent estimates of 1.6% in 2017, based on the more restrictive ICD-10 Hyperkinetic Disorder criteria (57). Administrative prevalence of adult ADHD in the UK stands at around 0.1% (40), far below even some of the lowest prevalence rates documented in adults (9).

              • Failure of Healthcare Provision for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the United Kingdom: A Consensus Statement, 2021

              This suggests about 1% of the UK population has ADHD and isn’t diagnosed. The would be more than 600,000 people.

            • Tippon
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              21 year ago

              You were replying to a comment on ADHD in the UK

    • @angrystego@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      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.)