In this video, a board certified adult psychiatric nurse practitioner and board certified clinical nurse specialist in child and adolescent mental health discusses her own personal journey with ADHD and the significant role and impact it has had in her own clinical practice helping those with ADHD. She offers practical insights on discussing treatment with patients and their families, what she sees in clinical practice, and tips and tricks for helping patients manage their individual journeys with ADHD. She also shares insights and her own clinical experience treating patients 6 years and older with a nonstimulant treatment for ADHD.

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Jennifer Ganem, MS, APRN: I’ve been in practice for 28 years. I treat ADHD patients, both children and adults. I share with patients that I know ADHD as a person with it, the daughter of it, the sister of it, the wife of it, and the parent of it. I think it’s important because people feel alone in this disorder, and they think they’re the only ones who have experienced this. ADHD is a highly genetic disorder, so you see it in multiple family members. It is inheritable like height. 

I typically get referrals from pediatricians who have tried a couple of medications but don't know where to go after that. I have adults present after their child has been diagnosed because they say, "I'm just like Susie," and they'll come for an evaluation. 

Jennifer Ganem, MS, APRN: Typically, what brings men into treatment is their wife or partner's frustration with all of their ADHD symptoms, like they start a project but never finish it. Adult women come in, they're frightened, literally, that they're not going to remember to pick up a child from a baseball game. When you do the digging, you realize it's ADHD. 

I utilize stimulants and nonstimulants. I think most practitioners actually do that, because they offer different opportunity treatment-wise, symptom-control-wise. 
Qelbree is a once-a-day medication. You can take it at morning or night. I let them pick what time works best for them based on their symptoms.

Narrator: INDICATION
Qelbree is indicated for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in patients 6 years and older. 

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Warning: Suicidal thoughts and behaviors. In clinical studies, higher rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors were reported in patients with ADHD treated with Qelbree than in patients treated with placebo. Closely monitor all Qelbree-treated patients for clinical worsening and for emergence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. 

Please see accompanying full prescribing information, including boxed warning and full important safety information at the end of this video. 

Jennifer Ganem, MS, APRN: I love how it can last 24 hours. Qelbree impacts both the inattentive symptoms and the hyperactive/impulsive symptoms.
My adults love Qelbree because it's not a stimulant. I think since COVID, a lot of us in psychiatry are still working remotely and doing telehealth. The advantage to Qelbree with that is it's not a stimulant, and we can see people virtually and we can prescribe.

Parents love that they can go to the pharmacy and pick up refills and not have to deal with the “do not fill until” whatever date with the stimulants. ADHD child has often an ADHD parent who forgets to fill a prescription until the last minute, and with the current shortage, that is a recipe for disaster. My adults appreciate 90-day prescriptions, have a lot of flexibility in that regard. 

The other advantage to Qelbree is that it can be sprinkled on pudding or applesauce. For children or adults who cannot swallow a pill, it is a great option. There is no other nonstimulant that you can sprinkle. 

Supernus has phenomenal patient education.

I don't have one word for Qelbree; I have many to describe it: smooth delivery, flexibility, nonstimulant. 

I love treating ADHD. I think my ADHD experience is very much a blessing for patients. When I share the struggles I had going through school—that 2 hours’ worth of homework for everybody else took me 4 hours. An adolescent and a parent both can relate to that. So, I think that having ADHD helps me understand where the patient's coming from. It's an incredible journey and I feel blessed to be able to be part of that journey.

Indication and full ISI scroll at the end of the video.