How to Use attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in a Sentence

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

noun

• Two bags of marijuana, a scale and Adderall, a drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, were found in his car.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2019
• King, who is 8 years old, was diagnosed in kindergarten with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and has been taking medicine twice a day to control it.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• When asked to describe a typical child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), most people would describe a young boy who climbs on things, is impatient and does not do what he is told.
  — Meadow Schroeder, CNN, 1 Mar. 2018
• And 7-year-old Stephen Bo, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was overstimulated — and overwhelmed — in his first-grade Zoom class.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• Shire is well-known for producing Adderall, used widely in the U.S. to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
  — Megumi Fujikawa, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
• Kai Lightner of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was a 6-year-old with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder when his mother coaxed him off a flagpole and into a climbing gym.
  — Mallika Mitra, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• The study found that children with both autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder had a much higher risk for anxiety than autistic children without ADHD.
  — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 14 June 2018
• Best-known in the U.S. for its attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug, Adderall, Shire has more recently transformed itself into one of the world’s biggest makers of orphan drugs, or treatments for rare diseases.
  — Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
• As a young teenager, Patrick had been bullied, and later he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, his parents said.
  — Katharine Q. Seelye Photographs By Todd Heisler, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2018
• One contributing factor for his odd affect: Cruz had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, though experts caution that neither should be seen as a cause of his attack.
  — Sarah Blaskey, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• Another friend at the Edgehurst house said the woman had been prescribed Adderall, an amphetamine used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and believed the woman was taking more than the prescribed amount.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 June 2022
• For the first time, a U.S. survey found that black children appear to be more likely than white kids to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other learning disabilities.
  — Mike Stobbe, ajc, 4 Mar. 2020
• Many of those children also suffered a range of illnesses, from asthma or eczema, to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
  — Tatiana Sánchez, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• When Paras was in the third grade, a teacher recommended that he be evaluated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but his parents didn’t follow through.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• In one instance, nursing staff left 29 pills used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder on top of a refrigerator.
  — Fred Clasen-Kelly and Cassie Cope, charlotteobserver, 5 June 2018
• Emiliano, a 9-year old with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder who came for a physical, had recently lashed out several times at school.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• She has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, known as ADHD, a mood disorder and is being tested for autism, the attorney said.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 15 Feb. 2020
• Amir has a sleep disorder, and both boys have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and an anger disorder.
  — John Johnston, The Enquirer, 25 Dec. 2020
• By the age of 5, he was diagnosed with ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
  — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
• Adderall is a drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 9 May 2022
• The lawsuit says the boy suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
  — Fox News, 31 July 2018
• When bavisant flopped in a 2012 clinical trial aimed at adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, researchers observed that insomnia was one of its side effects.
  — Bryn Nelson /, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2018
• Add one more to the list of environmental factors that could contribute to the rise in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): pesticides.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2010
• Boys are four times as likely as girls to be diagnosed with autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, for example, while men are 75 percent more likely than women to develop schizophrenia.
  — NBC News, 20 Dec. 2021
• But the team doesn’t know what aspect of fracking caused the low birth weights, which put babies at higher risk for infant mortality, asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, lower test scores, and lower lifetime earnings.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 13 Dec. 2017
• Across the internet, noise apps and machines are touted as the answer to this sleep deprivation — and also to a host of other health issues ranging from tinnitus to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• King had dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and needed more attention in the classroom.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2019
• Suddenly Accolla found herself as the full-time caretaker of her stepson, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and whose school switched to remote learning.
  — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2021
• About 4 percent of American adults are estimated to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but there are no U.S. clinical practice guidelines for diagnosing and treating patients beyond childhood.
  — Jancee Dunn, New York Times, 24 May 2024
• Some researchers have found parallels between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in people and similar distractibility and impulsiveness in dogs.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024