By 2012, fully one-third of his campers were on meds, mostly ADHD medications, antidepressants, and antipsychotics. “What happens is, we’ve changed our whole culture, from one where kids don’t take pills at all to one where you’ve got a third or more of kids who are on pills to stay well because of what are believed to be chronic health conditions,” Burton said. “They get so used to taking pills that eventually they end up using them for a recreational high.” So it went that young people barely flinched at the thought of taking Adderall to get them going in the morning, an opioid painkiller
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