Research Recap: Discontinued Use of ADHD Meds
Hacking Your ADHD
William Curb
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Curb. Today, I'm joined by Skye Waterson for our research recap series, where we dive into a single research paper to find practical takeaways. In this episode, we're discussing a paper called "Adherence, Persistence and Medication Discontinuation in Patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Literature Review." This study asks: what's happening in the real world with medication adherence? Are people taking their meds, and if not, why? I found this paper through a presentation by Bill Dobson at the 2025 ADHD conference in Kansas City, and it really blew me away.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. |
| 0:08.0 | On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and Beck's practices to help you work with your |
| 0:12.3 | ADHD brain. Today I'm joined by Sky Waterson for our research recap series. In this series, |
| 0:17.5 | we take a look at a single research paper, dive into what the paper says, how it was conducted, and try and find any practical takeaways. |
| 0:23.8 | In this episode, we're going to be discussing a paper called Adherence, Persistence, and Medication |
| 0:28.3 | Diskininuation in Patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a systematic literature |
| 0:33.8 | review. |
| 0:34.8 | This study asks what's going on in the real world with medication adherence, are people taking their methods, and if not, why? |
| 0:41.3 | I found this paper because it was presented by Bill Dobson at the 2025 ADHD conference in Kansas City this year, and I was just blown away with his presentation on it. So I really wanted to kind of dig into |
| 0:56.0 | this paper and find out a little bit more about what's going on here. So with that, let's get into it. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah, this was such an interesting paper. I'm so glad that they brought it up at the conference |
| 1:05.6 | because when you told me the outcome, what they found in this paper, it literally blew my mind. |
| 1:13.8 | What they found was that a majority of people don't adhere to their treatment regimes. |
| 1:22.7 | They like once within the year period, what was the number? |
| 1:26.8 | One to three years. Yeah, one to three years and |
| 1:29.8 | only 25% of people stayed on medication. Yeah, it was really low. And that was kind of what |
| 1:40.3 | they were looking at was why people are not staying on medication. And to kind of not |
| 1:45.7 | bury the lead even more, if you get to the end of this paper, this paper is largely supported by |
| 1:50.9 | people who get funding from medication. So this is not a conversation about anything other than |
| 1:57.9 | how do we not make this happen? Yeah, like they're very interested in being like, well, if people are getting benefits out of this, |
| 2:04.7 | because, and we'll get into that, but if they're getting benefits, how do we make sure that |
| 2:08.7 | they're still getting them? And if they're not getting benefits, maybe we need to change things. |
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