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How women and girls with ADHD are given short shrift with treatment, other forms of help

 ADHD in the News 2020-05-21


“I couldn’t believe it,” Crawford said later. Two private therapists had already told her she had ADHD, she said. But her plan’s psychiatrist said it was company policy to deny diagnosis and medication if a patient had done well in school as a child.

View Article: Washington Post, May 19, 2020




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