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more than 3.5 million children are using medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, adhd, according to the cdc, the centers for disease control. now the authors of one of the most influential studies that first trumpeted the effectiveness of these pharmaceuticals back in the 1990s, those authors are now saying they're worried that the results oversold the benefits of using the drugs alone without other forms of therapy. so what does this all mean for your child? professor steven hinshaw of the university of california berkeley joins me. thanks for being with us. you were a researcher in this influential '90s study and the principal investigator for the berkeley study. do you think the pharmaceutical companies misused the research to downplay the effectiveness of non-drug therapy presumably for their own gain? >> i can't speak for exactly what the pharmaceutical companies did or did not do. they're in the business of creating medications and