Ritalin Nation: Rapid-Fire Culture and the Transformation of Human Consciousness » (1st Edition)

Richard DeGrandpre is visiting professor of psychology at St. Michael's College in Vermont.

In this illuminating investigation of the epidemic of attention deficit disorder (ADD) and its most widely prescribed treatment, the powerful psychostimulant Ritalin, psychologist Richard DeGrandpre sounds a warning: we may well be failing our children by treating symptoms and not causes with a quick-fix and ultimately unsatisfactory solution.

Preface
The Hurried Society and Its Experience
Great Misadventures in Time
Speed and Its Transformation of Human
Consciousness
Sensory Addictions: How Culture Manufactures
Disease
Generation Rx
Deliberate Living: Because Patience Comes to Those Who Wait
Notes
Index