Editorial Policy

ADHD Tribe publishes plain-English articles about adult ADHD in the UK. This page explains exactly how that content is produced, sourced, dated and corrected, so you can judge how much weight to give it.

Scope: non-clinical

ADHD Tribe is a non-clinical coaching service. Nothing published here is medical advice, diagnosis, assessment or treatment, and it is not a substitute for care from your GP or an appropriately qualified clinician. We do not diagnose, assess, prescribe, or advise on medication or supplements. Articles that describe NHS pathways, research or policy are summaries of published sources, not clinical guidance.

Sourcing priorities

We work down this order of preference and cite what we used:

1. Official UK guidance and public bodies: NICE, NHS, GOV.UK, Parliament, ONS, MHRA, regulators.
2. Primary research: peer-reviewed studies and systematic reviews, read at the source.
3. Established UK charities and professional bodies for lived-experience and service context.
4. Named UK news reporting, used only for events and quotes, never as evidence for a clinical claim.

We do not treat content aggregators, syndicated feeds or AI-generated summaries as sources. Where an article's evidence base is thin, we say so in the article rather than overstating it.

Citation practice

Every research-led article carries a visible References section listing the sources it drew on, with links to the original publication wherever one is publicly available. External citations open in a new tab. If a claim in an article is not supported by a listed source, treat it as our opinion or practical experience rather than evidence.

Authorship

Articles are attributed either to Khalid Anwar, founder of ADHD Tribe, or to ADHD Tribe as the publishing organisation where the piece is a research summary produced by our editorial process rather than a personal account. The visible byline always matches the author recorded in the page's structured data.

We do not claim independent clinical review. No article on this site has been reviewed or endorsed by a clinician unless the article itself names that person, and we do not describe ourselves as an approved, accredited or registered provider of any scheme.

Publication, update and review dates

Each article shows its publication date and, when it has been substantively changed, its updated date. Those dates reflect real content changes; we never refresh a date to make an article look newer. Guidance-sensitive articles (waiting lists, prescribing, Access to Work, NHS pathways) are re-checked against their sources when we become aware that the underlying guidance has moved.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, we want to fix it. Tell us through the contact form with the article URL and what you believe is inaccurate. We aim to respond within five working days. Material corrections are made in the article and noted with an updated date; minor typographical fixes are made silently.

Commercial and editorial separation

ADHD Tribe earns money from coaching sessions, coaching programmes and Academy memberships. We do not accept paid placements, sponsored posts, affiliate commission or advertising, and no external party pays to influence what we publish or how we describe a service. Articles may link to our own coaching pages; those links are clearly ours and are never presented as independent recommendations. Where an article discusses a route we also sell coaching for, such as Access to Work support, we say plainly that we are a commercial provider.

Use of AI

Some research summaries are drafted with AI assistance against sources we have selected. Every article passes automated checks for sourcing and UK-English style, and no article is published without its sources recorded. AI is a drafting tool here, not a source.

In a crisis

If you are in crisis, call 999, or Samaritans free on 116 123. This website cannot help in an emergency.