millennials raised on prescription drugs are ticking time bombs
Are Millennials Over Medicated?
Many millennials are accustomed to medicating mental health issues because they have also been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in escalating numbers. ADHD was first included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1987 (when Millennials were entering pre-school) and has been “increasingly diagnosed over recent decades,” writes Casey Schwartz in the New York Times. The ADHD medication Adderall is now widely available and frequently misused. In his book ADHD Nation, author Alan Schwarz points out that,
“At the current rate, in 2017, half a million American children will be taken to their doctors and be newly diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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