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Closing the ADHD Care Gap

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Additionally, many primary care practices affiliated with academic medical centers or childrens hospitals have integrated primary care clinics. is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. Floyd, Ph.D.,

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

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The 16% increase in ADHD diagnoses over the last decade is due, in large part, to revised diagnostic criteria published in the DSM-5 , which changed the maximum age of onset from 7 to 12 and added the first-ever qualifier symptoms for ADHD in adulthood. 15 ADHD shortens an individuals life expectancy by 7.5 years , on average.