STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow Opinion: What happened to oppositional defiant disorder? Over the past 25 years, there’s been a dramatic change in how we understand children who don’t “listen,” writes behavioral pediatrician Lawrence Diller. https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/17/oppositional-defiant-disorder-use-of-odd-diagnosis-declines-in-children/ statnews.com