Topic: Gen Y

The ‘Medication Generation’ Has Grown Up … Now What?

Are we ‘overmedicating’ today’s youth with Ritalin and Prozac? The issue routinely gets dredged up by parents and media outlets, but it’s hardly a new concern. In the 1980s and 1990s, kids and teens who in a previous generation may have received therapy (or gone untreated) began to routinely be prescribed psychotropic drugs–antidepressants, antipsychotics, stimulants, mood stabilizers. It’s not uncommon for 20- and 30-somethings today to have spent the better part of their lives on such medications. Meanwhile, the consequences of their long-term use is virtually unknown. More »

Heroin Chic: More 20-Somethings Using Heroin, Report Says

WTF, Gen Y? Certainly everyone our age has seen enough movies and heard about enough addicted celebrities to know that things go along swimmingly for your average drug user until they start using heroin. Then you’re having sex with strangers and stealing your mom’s TV and hiding suppositories up your bum maybe getting stabbed by your ex-girlfriend (RIP Elliott). This is not a route you want to take. Yet taking it more people are, across the country and at younger ages. More »

Today’s 20-Somethings Aren’t As Green As Their Parents

Conservationist. Environmentalist. Eco-friendly. Green. What we call someone who cares about environmental issues has changed over the past few decades, and so have our generational attitudes toward these issues—just not necessarily for the better. Though we ‘Millennials’ may have grown up in the era of recycling and global warming, a recent study found members of Gen Y to be less interested in the environment and less civic-minded overall than members of Gen X or baby boomers were at the same age. More »