ADD/ADHD Information
Armed Forces Letter
Transcript below:
Thank you for your email of 9 July 2002 to the Ministry of Defence enquiring wither there are any restrictions on entry to the Armed Forces for persons who are suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and who are prescribed Methylphenidate. Your correspondence has been passed to this department and I have been asked to reply.
A history of ADHD is not a bar to entry to the Armed Forces providing the condition has been absent for two years without treatment and has not been complicated by violence or other criminality. Individuals with ADHD who are on medication, such as Methylphenidate would be barred from entry.
Service personal must be fit to serve anywhere in the world at any time and in locations where medical care may be limited or remote and medical re-supply uncertain or impossible. Therefore those predisposed to or with conditions requiring periodic medical care or review, or taking long-term medication or in whom deterioration of a pre-existing condition might occur are not considered suitable for military service. Many conditions and especially those controlled by medication or other intervention which may not limit civilian employment are, nevertheless incompatible with military service.
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