In our own experiences teaching college undergrads for fifteen years, we received health histories from all of our students nearly every quarter, in advance of taking them on multiday field trips to the scablands of Eastern Washington, the San Juan islands, the Oregon coast. By the late aughts (2008, 2009), some of our academic programs had a populace in which more than half of the students were still on or had as children been on mood-altering pharmaceuticals—again, typically (but not always) speed for the boys, antianxiety and antidepression meds for the girls. That number did decline some
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