It's Different for Girls With ADHD

It's Different for Girls with ADHD

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The consequences of misuse and abuse of these drugs are dangerous, sometimes fatal. Yet also harmful are the consequences of ADHD untreated, an all-to-common story for women like me, who not only develop symptoms later in life, but also have …
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Older students overcome challenges

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From left, Surinder Kaur Sudan, Janette Cobb and Tammy Walcher are all women who chose to improve themselves through education. … She dreamed of returning to college one day and helping others, but her drug and alcohol addictions held her back for 28 …
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Profiles of Cape addicts in recovery: Rachel Magnuson

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ONSET – Rachel Magnuson cannot remember the boat ride from Martha's Vineyard to the Gosnold Treatment Center. “I thought I slept the … Today, the young woman who was silent, emaciated and scared is reflective and hopeful more than two years after …
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Sexual Violence Victims Invited to 'Take Back the Night'

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The event will kick off with a music festival, a resource and children's fair and the Clothesline Project, a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt that they then hang on a clothesline to be viewed by …
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Faces of UVic Research: Lenora Marcellus – Dr. Lenora Marcellus is a nurse and a professor at the University of Victoria. Her program of research currently centers around infants considered high risk …