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Generation Rx? Review of ‘Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up’

Kaitlin Bell Barnett’s new book, Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up, asks some uncomfortable questions about how an era of kids on psychotropic drugs are living now.

Casey Schwartz

Published Apr. 15 2012 4:45AM EDT

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I was 22, walking across the campus of UCLA, where I was taking summer classes to be able to apply to graduate school.

Wouldn’t it be swell, I suddenly thought, to live every moment of my life on Adderall?

Adderall had crept into my life while I was in college.

Casey Schwartz

Casey Schwartz

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