May 23, 2025The anticipated MAHA Commission report released yesterday misrepresents ADHD causes and care in the U.S., misinterpreting studies and disregarding compelling new research and patient voices to suggest that ADHD is contributing to a “crisis of overdiagnosis and treatment” in American children.
The MAHA Report, spearheaded by Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., presupposes that ADHD is a harmful contributor to America’s “childhood chronic disease crisis,” lumping it in with obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.
It disregards the genetic underpinnings of ADHD to suggest it is caused by environmental factors and foods, twists data to stoke fear over rising diagnosis rates, and excludes a wealth of studies that link stimulant medication use to improved health outcomes.
It assumes ADHD is a disease caused and cured by environmental factors. And it suggests that curing ADHD will “make America healthy again.” We disagree, and so does the research.Should the U.S.
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