My Work

Hey again,

Just to keep you posted and updated about the life in Canada and the Jobs at the Dutch embassy, I have decided to share some of my daily rituals with you. One of them is that, in order to write weekly newsletters on economic matters in Canada, I am slaved into reading the newspaper and drinking coffee every morning at work. Horrible practice of course. However, I learn a lot about Canada and its culture, something that I plan on sharing with you through this blog anyway. So I tought I'd provide some links to cool articles that I come across.


Having moved into my new appartment (more about that later), and having discussed the rise of Canadian DJ's with my new roommate and the fact that they are (except Deadmau5) are not really known in Europe, I found out that their target is right here in Canada. Because aparently most under fifteens suffer from ADHD (see article).


Canada the drug paradise of the world?






Are we medicating a disorder or treating boyhood as a disease?


Last year, more than two million prescriptions for Ritalin and other ADHD drugs were written specifically for children under 17, and at least 75 per cent of them were for young males. Part 3 of a 6-part series.


For school children across the country – most of them boys – taking a drug for attention deficit disorder each morning has become as commonplace as downing a vitamin. But the daily ritual has been quietly growing in Canada, year after year – a trend that's dwarfing rates in other countries and raising disturbing questions about the forces driving it.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/failing-boys/are-we-medicating-a-disorder-or-treating-boyhood-as-a-disease/article1762859/