Self-Medicated, Self-Educated

The interviewees in this New York Times report on young people "playing pharmacist" are supposedly abusing prescription psychiatric drugs, but they mostly come across as responsible, inquisitive, and knowledgeable about the pills they buy off the internet:

In dozens of interviews, via e-mail and in person, young people spoke of a sense of empowerment that comes from knowing what to prescribe for themselves, or at least where to turn to figure it out. They are as careful with themselves, they say, as any doctor would be with a patient.

I describe the joys of self-medicating in a military dictatorship here.