Reasons Adults Are Seeking ADHD Treatment at Record Rates

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🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. I read this yesterday, and I thought I would mention it to you today.
0:35.4	Adults are seeking ADHD treatment at record rates. Now, do you think there's something in our food or the water? You know? Brains are not working as well as they ought to all of a sudden evolutionarily?
0:57.3	Actually, to me, the answer is probably yes.
1:00.4	Because of social media and screens.
1:00.9	Yeah.
1:05.8	I think our brains are not working as well as evolutionarily they would have at this point.
1:07.5	But here we go.
1:10.1	So let me just read the excerpts from this article.
1:13.8	A new Canadian study reveals that stimulant,
1:21.0	yeah, stimulant prescriptions have more than doubled since the start of COVID.
1:26.9	You remember COVID, the big epidemic raced through the world, a trend that mirrors similar surges in the
1:32.3	United States, Australia, the UK, Finland. The study analyzed data from 2016 to 24 found that
1:43.3	the demographics of those receiving stimulants has shifted.
1:47.6	It was less women, more men. Now it's more women, less men.
1:53.9	Hmm. What's happening to us, ladies? We can't cope. We can't focus. We can't concentrate.
2:00.4	Why do you think that's so?
2:04.8	In June 2024, the monthly rate of adults being prescribed stimulants reached 10.4 per 1,000
2:13.1	more than seven times since the start of the study in 20, which was, I just read the number.
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