Illustrating the unrealistic notions that children have of medications barnett describes an incident in which paul at age ten takes all of his medications at once not as a suicide attempt but rather because he hopes they will fix him for good and convince his latest foster parents to adopt him instead he is sent to yet another foster family later in his early teens paul ends up . Dosed the medication generation grows up kaitlin bell barnett over the last two decades we have seen a dramatic spike in young people taking psychiatric medication. By 2009 25 percent of american college kids would be prescribed some kind of psychotropic medication according to a new book called dosed the medication generation grows up the author kaitlin. Dosed the medication generation grows up over the last two decades we have seen a dramatic spike in young people taking psychiatric medication as new drugs have come on the market and diagnoses have proliferated prescriptions have increased many times over the issue has sparked heated d