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New book tells story of ‘medication generation’ — 20-something with years on prescription drugs

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They’ve been called the “medication generation,” twenty-somethings who started taking psychiatric drugs when they were just kids. In her new book, author Kaitlin Bell Barnett tells the stories of five young people, now adults, who were medicated as children.

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