The use of medication to treat Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has risen sharply in the UK, largely due to growing prescription rates among adults - particularly women.

According to the NHS, symptoms may involve your ability to pay attention to things, having high energy, or being unable to ...

ADHD medication presciptions have surged in the UK over the past decade. Women have driven the record numbers, research suggests, with a 2000 per cent increase in prescriptions in those aged over ...

UK had highest relative increase of five countries in study, with 20-fold rise in proportion of women over 25 using it ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) medication use rose threefold over 13 years, with adult women showing the steepest climb.

Women are driving soaring use of ADHD medication, experts say. Researchers from the University of Oxford highlighted a 20-fold rise in use of drugs to manage the condition among w ...

Prescriptions of ADHD medicines has tripled in the UK over the past decade with a particular stark increase in women aged ...

ADHD diagnoses are rising sharply across the UK, particularly among adults who say symptoms were missed in childhood. ADHD ...

Use of ADHD medication has tripled over the last decade - Dramatic increase in women seeking treatment for ADHD in the UK, new study shows ...

Health and well-being don't jump to mind when discussing adult ADHD, and neither do poor health, suffering, disability, and ...

Analysis published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe finds increase in ADHD medication use. While methylphenidate ...

In the early 1990s, while working at the Maudsley Hospital in London, clinical and forensic psychologist Susan Young began to notice a troubling trend. Young people diagnosed with conditions such as ...