What is the most current information about adhd in children and teenagers?

Chronic & treatable: Adhd is the best-studied psychiatric disorder in children and adolescents. Controversies aside, there is strong evidence that it is a real, chronic, potentially severely impairing disorder for which a number of interventions, including medications & behavioral treatments, can markedly ease symptoms but do not "cure" the disorder. Also, 2/3 of the time, other disorders coexist that complicat rx.

AAP : Amer acad of ped published standards of care for diagnosis and treatment of children & adolescents with add in 2001 with an updated revision in 2011. See also nimh http://www.Nimh.Nih.Gov/health/publications/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder/complete-index.Shtml. And chadd @ www.Chadd.Org.