Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hey everybody welcome. It's

it's Susan Coffin here for Attitude magazine and an Attitudes

ADHD expert's webinar series. Welcome to all of you joining us today and

welcome back Lori Duar, guest expert.

Lori will be advising you listeners on strategies for cracking what we call the ADHD medication

maze. That is specifically how to get and how to

afford and how to refill your prescriptions with the least possible hassle.

We've heard from so many of you at attitude about the hassles inherent in taking ADHD medications.

Studies show that as many as 80% of people of ADHD can benefit from a stimulant or a non-stimulant medication and yet many patients never get to experience the vaunted effectiveness of medications.

In a presentation for attitude about a year or so ago, Lori spoke about the problem of the wrong medication, taking at the wrong time of day,

or in the wrong dose.

In today's presentation, Lori's turning to a different set of impediments, as I mentioned, trouble

finding prescribers knowledgeable about ADHD medications

insurance dead ends problems of 30-day refills and uncooperative pharmacists and

how to manage medications. So some of the tips that she'll be giving us today are how to choose a

prescriber who knows ADHD and medications. Why ADHD medications are classified as

scheduled two substances and what that means for all of us.

Some insights into how insurance companies deal with covering ADHD medications and how

to cope with sometimes we've heard uncooperative pharmacists.

Some money saving tips, patient payment assistance programs from ADHD medication companies,

and finally some strategies for remembering to take your medication. medication and

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