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Volume 353:1089-1091 September 15, 2005 Number 11
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Getting an Edge — Use of Stimulants and Antidepressants in College
Richard Kadison, M.D.

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A college student sought help at our health center because he was having social anxiety and difficulty participating in class discussion. He said he had used an antidepressant drug to combat his social fears when he was in high school but had stopped taking it because he wanted to make a fresh start in college — and because he'd noticed that the medication affected his libido. Now, however, because he was painfully aware that class participation counted for half his grade, he wanted a new prescription for his old medication.

Around the same time, I saw another student who, he . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. Kadison is the chief of mental health at the University Health Services, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.



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