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Friday, November 25, 2005 12:00 AM

Life: The disorder

More and more adults and teens are popping pills for ADD, "generalized anxiety disorder" and other quasi-societal conditions. Is it time to retire our moralistic distinction between "recreational" and "medical" drugs?
By David Amsden

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  • Friday, November 25, 2005 10:46 AM

    Echoes of the past...

    The deeper I got into David Amsden's essay the more I thought I was reading something I'd written thirty years ago. Oh to be in my twenties again, thinking I had all the answers and sharing them with everyone vis-a-vis broad sweeping generalizations and idealized notions of what life is all about.

    As well intentioned as I'm sure Amsden's thoughts were, they suffer from the myopic hubris of youth, which his articulate writing doesn't do a very good job of masking. As another letter writer observed, this was an essay that felt like it should have been on Amsden's blog rather than on Salon.

    Is it too late to append Salon's biggest misses of the past ten years?

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