Bill Schubart: An addicted America

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bill Schubart, a regular commentator for Vermont Public Radio and a former board member of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the umbrella organization for VTDigger.org. This piece was first aired on VPR.
Recently, the leader of a major Eastern university observed that 25 percent of his incoming class this year is on some form of prescribed psychotropic medication for ADHD, depression or anxiety.
Seventy percent of all Americans are taking some form of presc