A loving dad claims he was pushed to the brink of suicide after a failed ADHD service repeatedly made mistakes with his medication. The 34-year-old - whom we are only naming as Andy - suffered what he describes as a ‘massive breakdown’ as a result of the continual errors, leaving him with ‘horrible scarring’ from the self-harm he was driven to.
A survivor of childhood sexual abuse he was diagnosed with ADHD - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - as a child, but later ‘fell through the cracks’ in the care system and was left to cope with his condition best he could as an adult. However, he was referred to Heywood-based LANCuk after moving to Whitworth, near Rochdale, in 2018, which confirmed he had ADHD and began prescribing him medication.
He began taking Medikinet after finding two other drugs - Elvanse and Medikinet XL - ‘didn’t agree’ with him. While this was effective, Andy says they would ‘constantly’ send him prescription Medikinet XL, not send him enough tablets, or not send the prescription at all.
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