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		<title>Life out of focus: Growing up with ADHD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My nephew has HDADD, High-Definition Attention Deficit Disorder,&#8221; said comedian Steven Wright on his album &#8220;I Still Have a Pony.&#8221; &#8220;He can barely pay attention, but when he does it’s unbelievably clear.&#8221; I love this joke. Steven Wright takes two unrelated subjects and blends them into an almost perfect mixture of clever wordplay and dry-wit delivery. Most of all, I can relate to the topic on a deep level, because I have ADHD. What exactly is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, more commonly known as ADHD, or ADD? I asked some students on campus to find out their perception. &#8220;It’s an attention disorder that makes it hard to concentrate on certain things,&#8221; said freshman Randy Maln. &#8220;Not that it’s impossible to concentrate. You might be able to focus on certain things and not on other things. Or hyper-focus on certain other things.&#8221; While attention difficulty is a symptom of ADHD, it sometimes isn’t a problem for some people diagnosed with it. &#8220;You have trouble concentrating, trouble focusing and are easily distracted,&#8221; said nursing student Catherine Worman. &#8220;The onset is in childhood. Sometimes people with anxiety and depression are misdiagnosed with it.&#8221; It is true that people with anxiety or depression are misdiagnosed it. But anxiety and depression can also be caused by ADHD and are also one of the symptoms. So then what is ADHD? I don’t even fully know what it is. WebMD’s overview of ADHD describes the disorder through symptoms rather than causes. And according to Doctors Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey’s book, &#8220;Delivered from Distraction,&#8221; ADHD is simply a name for a list of both positive and negative symptoms that only become a disorder when they interfere with everyday living. Ginny DeWitt, Disability Services associate director at the START Center, believes that the actual definition of ADHD isn’t as important as knowing that each individual case is different. &#8220;Your kind is unique to you. Joe’s is unique to Joe. Jennifer’s is unique to Jennifer,&#8221; said DeWitt. &#8220;And they struggle a little bit differently with their own brand of it. One definition does not fit all people.&#8221; People who have ADHD can have all or only some of the symptoms, which include trouble focusing, problems with organizing daily tasks, impulsivity, hyperactivity, easy distraction, procrastination, frequent running or movement and too many others too mention. Living with my ADHD is a daily struggle. Even with medication, my attention still can wander and I always have to remind myself not to procrastinate. But one of the great things I’ve learned since I’ve found out I have it was that it comes with advantages as well. People with ADHD can be extremely creative and tend to think outside the box. I didn’t always know I had ADHD. In fact, growing up I never knew I had it. And neither did anybody else. Flashback 25 years ago, and you’d probably think I was just like any other kid in the class. I certainly thought I was. My second grade teacher was...]]></description>
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		<title>Living with, not dying of AIDS: A Q&amp;A discussion between contributing writer and HIV Prevention Specialist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Packer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning of the AIDS years the state of Utah was largely untouched. On a per capita basis our numbers were among the lowest in the country. As the years began to unfold then we started to see the faces of sick men and women. State and local government was slow to react at first. Two grass roots organizations sprang up in the late 1980s: AIDS Project Utah (modeled after the still operating AIDS Project San Francisco) and the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation. The former was client based with support services for people with HIV/AIDS. The second was more community focused with services such as prevention and education. Eventually the two organizations combined. They became the Utah AIDS Foundation. Another organization also sprang up, The People With AIDS Coalition. The county and state health departments were more concerned with testing and prevention. In August 1990, nine years after the first case of AIDS (then called Gay Related Immune Deficiency), Congress enacted The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act in honor of a young &#8220;innocent victim&#8221; who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion. These funds are to improve availability of care for low-income, uninsured and under-insured people with AIDS and their families. Many people think the state has little to do with this ugly disease. I have found it to be quite the opposite. I recently spoke to Heather Bush with the Utah Department of Health. She is the Education and Training Coordinator and HIV Prevention Specialist as well as the spokesperson. The purpose of my interview was to find out exactly what the state does offer and their official stand on HIV/AIDS (as it happens, Bush is a graduate of Westminster and a former writer for The Forum):   How long has the Bureau of Epidemiology been in business?  &#8221;The bureau has been around a very long time but the name has changed several times over the years. In the beginning it was the Bureau of Communicable Disease and it started in probably 1990.&#8221;   What are the specific programs run by the state in state facilities?  &#8221;At the State level: We manage Ryan White part B, (Funding from Federal Government), The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), Health Insurance Pool (created for people unable to get insurance because of pre-existing conditions or other reasons), and The Prevention and Testing Program. &#8220;The medical and mental health programs are all run through the University of Utah in Clinic 1A. As you know, as everywhere else, funding has been cut drastically. The requirements for ADAP and HIP have changed to require people to be more poor to be accepted. A while back ADAP was closed because of funding (no longer accepting new patients). In addition we had to cut dental care, mental health, substance abuse support and food bank. ADAP has since been reopened and is again accepting applications however. &#8220;ADAP and HIP are considered the payer of last resort. If people can’t get insurance, can’t get Medicaid and have...]]></description>
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