Smart Drugs, Attention Doping, and Screen Addicts

Kenneth J. Saltman's Smart Drugs, Attention Doping, and Screen Addicts masterfully illuminates the profound intersection of education, pharmaceuticals, and digital technologies. With compelling clarity and a fierce commitment to social justice, Saltman unveils the sinister ways in which the pharmaceutical and tech industries commodify youth attention, exploiting their minds and bodies in the name of profit. The book is both a powerful critique of modern schooling and a call to arms, urging us to reconsider what it means to truly educate. This is a timely and essential read, as it offers a profound reflection on the commodification of childhood and the future of education in the age of digital distraction. Through insightful analysis and rich narrative, Saltman calls us to imagine an educational system that values critical consciousness over mere compliance, urging readers to reclaim education as a site of meaning, agency, and social transformation. -- Henry Giroux, Chair Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest, McMaster University, Canada Smart Drugs, Attention Doping, and Screen Addicts is a vital book that beautifully lays out how big pharma and digital technologies work in tandem to overstimulate, control, atomize, and addict young people for profits. Yet Saltman also vividly illustrates that critical pedagogies can offer something vastly better and potentially even more addictive, which is the promise of solidarity and collective liberation. -- Alexander J. Means, Associate Professor, University of Hawai?i at Manoa, USA