It’s the new joke, isn’t it? Hands up anyone who doesn’t have ADHD! Or, am I the only person here who doesn’t have ADHD? And the joke is all the more exquisite in London.
It turns out that it’s here that there’s been the highest increase in the rate of prescriptions for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder over the course of four years, from 2020 to last year. Researchers have found that while rates over that time have gone up across the country, in London they’ve really spiked: the annual rate of increase is 28 per cent, followed by South East England, where the annual increase is nearly a fifth.
