Authors of one of the most influential studies that first trumpeted the effectiveness of ADHD medications in the 1990s say they worry the results over-sold the benefits of using the drugs alone, without other forms of therapy.
Professor Stephen Hinshaw tells CNN that, “Subsequent publications where we looked more broadly at academics and social skills and family discipline styles, showed the clear and superior benefits of combining the medications with active family and school behavior therapy.” Hinshaw was a researcher in the influential 1990s study.
