Crack and Adderall Addiction Now Prerequisites for Literary Accolades
The children are our shitty future


Oooh, all this debate coverage and you forgot all about David Carr, that writer for the Times who wrote a memoir called Night of the Gun about his old crack habits. And everyone was like "that is so brave to go to all your old friends and ex-girlfriends whom you beat up and ask them to tell you what you did to them while in a blackout so you can profit off their misery!"

Welp, children learn from watching you dad, because the winner of Rolling Stone's 33rd annual College Journalism Competition is a young man writing a first-hand account about his addiction to, ugh, Adderall and Paxil.

This generation is just the worst:

Kansan reporter Thor Nystrom was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder his sophomore year of high school in Minnesota and prescribed the drug Adderall. When he developed anxiety, a side effect of Adderall, he was prescribed Paxil. The two drugs, mixed with the beer he consumed as a KU freshman, led to behavior that culminated in a fight in a Lawrence parking lot, his arrest and his entry into the mental health system. Using his own medical records, police records, his own diaries, interviews with family and his own recollections, he wrote this account of what he calls his descent into the “depths of hell,” a journey with an ending that neither he nor his parents saw coming. This is his graduation story.

Sorry, those are just some shitty drug choices to get bent out shape about. Can anyone really stomach reading 3,000 words about your horrible episodes on every 13-year old girl's medication? Unless they take their A.D.D. medication before reading, it's not likely.

Oct 9, 2008 · posted by drew · Link · Respond
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