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Adderall and Our Addiction to Self-Optimization
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Adderall and Our Addiction to Self-Optimization

How the misuse of Adderall reveals a deeper illness

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O. Alan Noble
May 22, 2024
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One of the central theses of You Are Not Your Own is the idea that everyone has some kind of coping mechanism they use to “get through the day” in a fundamentally inhuman environment. Society places on our shoulders the unbearable burden of self-creation, including the obligation to discover an identity and define our purp…

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