Here are the last headlines of today:
Miquel Casas, Barcelona. “There are no miracles in science!” He pointed on the self-medication hypothesis: some patients may in fact use cannabis or cocaine to control their (undiagnosed) ADHD. That prompted the idea that ADHD-treatment would easily solve the hard drug abuse… That turned out not to be so simple. “Complex behaviour, comorbidity, social factors and neuro-adaptive processes are not altered after one session,”, Casas said.
Van den Brink: “ADHD and SUD: double diagnosis – double trouble, both for patients and for society.” He pointed out, that these diseases may have common factors, however: “if you share things, that does not mean you are identical. We have to build science and clinical evidence on the two interacting disorders ADHD and SUD. We have to distinguish anecdotes from science. Every patient is different. Our patient-population is extreme heterogeneous. Hence we encourage polypharmacy and polytherapy, to cover both diseases,” Van den Brink concluded.
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