Hasta La Creative!

[…] But the sharpest rise in recent years is among adults. Prescription data from drug management companies show that the number of adults on ADHD drugs grew dramatically in the decade ending in 2010. For women ages twenty to forty-four, the rate of use rose 264 percent, and for men in the same age range by 188 percent. By 2012, women ages nineteen to twenty-five had a higher rate of medication use than girls from four to eighteen. If antidepressants were the psychotropic of the Baby Boom generation, the same emblematic status appears to have been conferred on ADHD drugs, taken, with or without prescriptions, among Millennials. Estimates vary, but some surveys have found that as many as one-third of students on selective college campuses have tried an ADHD medication illicitly to improve performance. Consumer spending on ADHD medications has correspondingly increased, and in recent years has risen at a greater annual rate than expenditures on any other traditional class of pharmaceuticals. This growth is expected to continue. The Age of Depression may well become the Age of Attention Deficit. If so, we will have come full circle. The poet Auden lived what he called “the chemical life.” For twenty years, beginning in 1938, he began each day by taking a drug. But it was not to quell “anxiety.” Rather, referring to the drug as one of the few “labor-saving devices” in the “mental kitchen,” he used it to sustain his workday discipline. The drug was Benzedrine. It is the grandfather of the drugs, from Ritalin to Adderall to Dexedrine, that we now know as medications for ADHD.” via https://www.adbusters.org/article/8222/ […]

Source