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

Hello everyone and we're glad you can attend Attitudes Weekly ADHD

experts webinar. We do hope that everyone is staying safe and staying well.

This is a follow-up to the February 26th webinar,

Marijuana and the ADHD Brain,

How to Identify and Treat Cannabis use disorder in teens and young adults.

Just some housekeeping before we get started.

If you've listened to one of our webinars before, you know we offer attendees a certificate of attendance.

When the webinar ends, a post-event survey will pop up.

It will list three questions about the quality of the webinar, followed by three questions

titled, Required for Certificate. If you would like a Certificate of Attendance, email to you, you should answer those three questions. If you don't want a certificate, well, then don't bother.

When Dr. Oliveardia did his webinar about marijuana and the ADHD brain several weeks back.

There were so many questions from attendees that Attitude decided to do a part two, a follow-up,

so we could address many of the questions that were unanswered in the first

webinar.

Just a main headline of the first webinar,

Cannabis use affects many things negatively.

Memory, motivation, attention focus, processing, learning, performing complicated tasks with many executive steps,

balance, posture, coordination, and even reaction time.

So it affects a lot of things in a person's life. Just to remind you,

Dr. Oliveordia is a clinical psychologist and lecturer in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

He maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he specializes in the treatment of ADHD, obsessive-compulsive

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