People with ADHD have been dealing with a stimulant shortage in the US for almost a year. Some researchers say digital therapeutics could help fill the gap.
But this idea—that video games can be a legitimate medical treatment—will take some getting used to if it turns out to be true. Simply put, Kollins says, “we’re just not used to accessing medical products on our phone.” Just because it’s packaged as a game , Kollins doesn’t want us to forget that it’s medicine, too. “I really try to emphasize that this is a treatment for ADHD that happens to be a video game.
Kollins and Gazzaley believe that the launch of EndeavorOTC will allow adults who want to improve their attention to claim more agency over their own mental health treatment plans. While the app asks users to attest that they have ADHD, they don’t need to have a health care professional validate their claim.
This app presents an especially intriguing option for people like me, who fall in what I think of as ADHD purgatory. I’ve always been an overcommitted space cadet, tension-mounted by constant activity and getting by with the help of a finely-tuned assemblage of coping strategies. Many loved ones have suggested that I ought to get formally assessed by a health care provider, but I put off scheduling the appointment for so long that I gave up.
For those who fall in this gray zone—OK enough to squeak by without clinical interventions, but struggling enough to crave help—an easily accessible, low-risk, relatively low-cost digital therapeutic like EndeavorOTC might be a good fit. “Nobody looks at the label for Advil to see if it says you can take it to treat a hangover, but they still take it,” says Kollins.
“The reality is that our treatments for ADHD have not changed in decades,” Kollins adds, “and our outcomes haven’t changed that much. Here is an opportunity to add another tool to the toolkit.”
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