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An award-winning New York Times reporter who has extensively written about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. His most recent article, “The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder,” looks at how the number of diagnoses soared amid a 20-year drug marketing campaign.

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PART 2: Gabor Maté and Alan Schwarz on “The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder”

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