The phrase "are barely addressed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a particular topic or issue has not been sufficiently discussed or considered.
Example: "The concerns raised by the community are barely addressed in the final report."
Alternatives: "are hardly mentioned" or "are minimally covered."
Once commended, they are barely addressed.
(Interestingly, the social pressures of adolescence are barely addressed).
Other seriously harmful issues, urban heat stress in particular, are barely addressed by local governments.
Regulating services (CO2 storage, water quality) are barely addressed by spatial planning and actors do not value them either.
But thornier issues of game violence (the gorier bits are never shown in the torrent of game clips), gender representation and effects on childhood development are barely addressed.
Sadly these hot topics are barely addressed and most of us feel that Africa gets deliberately marginalised with content and visibility, many times we disregard the zero women on panels epidemic and think it's funny.
Hidden among the current controversy on antisemitism is an issue so big and so difficult that it is barely addressed.
Its leader, Nick Clegg, said the key issue was the level of maintenance grants, an issue that was barely addressed in the package unveiled on Friday.
For instance, the thesis that equity prices are in the midst of a historic step-change, caused by investors coming to realise that shares over the long run are no riskier than bonds, is barely addressed.
Later, such sitcoms as "One Day at a Time" and "Who's the Boss?" had divorced mothers as protagonists, but the breakups were barely addressed: the focus was on the women moving on with their lives.
Yet despite Mr. Harris's sentiments about black America's proprietary relationship with the genre, the blues is a form that has been detached from modern black life, an evolution that's barely addressed in the series.
