Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Generation Adderall
When Casey Schwartz was in college, a typical day might include knocking out an impassioned term paper on Russian literature, reading the latest New Yorker and rocking a ten mile run around campus. If you’re tired just listening to that, it’s probably because you didn’t pop an Adderall today. Doctors prescribe the amphetamine to treat ADHD.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readWhen Casey Schwartz was in college, a typical day might include knocking out an impassioned term paper on Russian literature, reading the latest New Yorker and rocking a ten mile run around campus. If you’re tired just listening to that, it’s probably because you didn’t pop an Adderall today. Doctors prescribe the amphetamine to treat ADHD. Casey Schwartz started bumming Adderall pills from her friends during her sophomore year in college at Brown University. Adderall has increasingly become a drug of choice for college kids, who buy it on the black market. But what happens when they graduate and go out into the work world?
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The full episode
4 of 5Defending Bob Dylan and generation Adderall- 0:30Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature
- 13:03New questions about political polling
- 21:34Where have all the Berners gone?
- 30:24Generation AdderallYou’re reading this
- 42:36Web roundup: Surviving the election