Smart Drugs, Attention Doping, and Screen Addicts: The Drug Attention Industrial Complex in Education

by Kenneth J. Saltman

With this book, Keneth J. Saltman argues that drugs are at the center of the most significant transformations of schooling. Children are increasingly being drugged to compete on standardized tests, to increase their attention levels in school, and are being diagnosed with ADHD at exponentially increasing rates. Saltman describes the material stakes in what he calls the education drugs attention complex, namely: educational profiteering through the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350439991
• ISBN13: 9781350439993
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"