The Conversation – Sara C. Mednick
“Along with a steeper financial burden and an increasingly competitive academic environment, this year’s incoming freshman university class will likely be confronted with the pressure to take a little pill that some popular culture references say will make you “awesome at everything.” Or they may eschew the temptation and rely on the standard practice of study, sleep, repeat. Welcome to #GenerationAdderall, the kids who grew up in the years of the diagnosis boom of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. As such, their formative years during this period normalized the habit and granted easy access to stimulants traditionally used to treat children with the diagnosis.” (more)