ADHD isn t just kids being kids.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) had a star turn in the recent, high-profile murder trial of University of Virginia lacrosse star George Huguely. Lawyers for the defense aren t using the condition to explain away their client s presumed violent behavior; rather, they re saying that the woman he s accused of killing may have died from her own, personal battle with ADHD. Amidst their exculpatory evidence was the victim s prescription for Adderall, and they offered that she could have died from a mix of the drug (which is prescribed to treat ADHD) and alcohol. The medical examiner has discounted that notion , calling the very low levels of Adderall in the victim s blood within therapeutic range. The cause of her death rather seems to have been a blunt force trauma to the head.