Drowned In A Stream of Prescriptions by Alan Schwarz. The New York Times. February 2, 2013.
The tragic story of Richard Fee, college class president and aspiring medical student, is told in the context of the national problem of abuse of Adderall, an amphetamine-based medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The article points out that nearly 14 million monthly prescriptions for ADHD were written in 2011, two and a half times what was prescripted in 2007.
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