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Maggie Mosbarger

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How Being Labeled with ADHD Made Me a Meth Addict

The self-fulfilling prophecy of a diagnostic label

January 10, 2019 • by Maggie Mosbarger
I woke up in a plastic bed to a nurse with a thick Russian accent asking me to sit upright so that she could draw my blood. It was a peculiar way to start my first full day in the Fairfax Behavioral Health facility. The night before, I had been ...
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