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O, The Oprah (Digital)

O, The Oprah (Digital)

1 Issue, November 2014

Coming into Focus

In the past few years, the use of ADHD medication among adults has risen more than 50 percent—and the numbers are even higher for women. Is the suspected overdiagnosis in children now happening to us?
RACHEL WAS A COLLEGE FRESHMAN when she first tried the amphetamine-based prescription drug Adderall at a party. She liked the mild high it gave her, and soon she began paying friends a few bucks for a pill here and there, whenever she needed a little help concentrating on her course work. "All of a sudden I had this amazing focus," she says. Fast-forward a few years to 2011, when she found herself disengaged at work and having difficulty staying on task. After getting a few pills from a friend, she finally asked her psychiatrist (whom she was seeing for anxiety) for a prescription for the drug, which is commonly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). "I just dropped into the conversation that I'd been taking a friend's meds,…
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