What is CADDRA, and why do clinicians keep referencing its guidelines?

CADDRA is the Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance, a professional not-for-profit that publishes Canadian ADHD practice guidelines and a medication chart. Clinicians reference those documents because they summarise Canadian practice on assessment and medication options. CADDRA is not a licensing body. References: https://www.caddra.ca/ https://www.caddra.ca/guideline-overview/ https://www.caddra.ca/medication-chart/

My GP kept saying CADDRA the way I say a brand name, and I went home and tried to figure out if that was the college. I had them in the same mental folder as licensing. At the next visit I asked, awkwardly, whether CADDRA was who licensed them. The answer was calmer than my question. I still catch myself treating guideline names as official stamps. That was my mix-up in one office, not a claim about what every clinician should cite.