Increasing Numbers of Students Arrive on College Campuses on Psychiatric Medications

This article was adapted from a presentation by Ms. Carter and Dr. Winseman for a conference entitled: “The Escalating Use of Medications by College Students: What Are They Telling Us, What Are We Telling Them?” Bennington College and The Erikson Institute at The Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts hosted the conference on September 7, 2002. Psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and administrators from nine New England colleges (Amherst, Bennington, Dartmouth, Harvard, Middlebury, Simons Rock, Smith, Williams, and Yale) met to consider the implications of the use of psychiatric medications by college students.