Fentanyl, SSRIs and Ox圜ontin go unmentioned, as does the public epidemic of mental illness, weird violence and pajama-wearing that has followed the licensing of marijuana sales. Jay’s book “Psychonauts” largely ignores the mass stupefaction of the present. With numbers like these, the English writer Mike Jay is right to argue that drugs have been crucial to making the modern mind. Start ’em young: In cases of ADHD, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends withholding prescription amphetamines from children until they are six years old. More than 40 million Americans have prescriptions for Adderall (active ingredient: amphetamine salts), and a similar number are on SSRI antidepressants. In 2020, the CDC reports, doctors prescribed legal opioids 143 million times. Last year, the DEA seized fentanyl equivalent to 379 million lethal doses. American society is a massive pharmacological experiment.
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