“The group with ADHD is at highest risk for having additional mental health problems,” says Barbaresi, who directs the Developmental Medicine Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and is an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. “We have to stop trivializing ADHD as just another childhood behavior problem. The nature and duration of this study show we have to recognize it as a chronic serious health problem that deserves a lot more attention than it has received.”
