Is It Time to Rethink Pediatric ADHD?
June 27, 2025
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Is It Time to Rethink Pediatric ADHD?
Summary
A record high 7 million U.S. children have received an ADHD diagnosis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But journalist Paul Tough wonders if we’re thinking about pediatric ADHD all wrong. For a recent New York Times Magazine feature, Tough spent a year talking to leading researchers who now say that standard treatments like Ritalin only help children behave better, not learn better – and even that effect wears off completely over time. We talk to Tough about why he says we need to reconceptualize diagnosis and treatment of ADHD.
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Paul Tough, contributing writer, New York Times Magazine
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