Do people use Adderall at your school?

collegedudeseph
Thu, 20 May 2010 23:52:49 +0000

I can report to you that adderall is a massive problem at my school, which is an upper class school. I know that other similar schools around have the same sort of situation. If a student isnt performing up to par, be it in middle school or high school, his parents take him to get add tested. The kid can obviously pass the tests, you just have to act easily distracted. Once a doctor tells you that you have add, he prescribes you adderall. Literally 90-95% of my friends take adderall for finals/sats, and about half take it regularly. I can tell you that it is very easy to identify those who take it on a regular basis, because they are often without emotion and find it hard to be “happy” so to say. I know a number of students who became depressed after starting adderall, and the hunt always seems to be on for these students in regards to finding the “new” add drug that works better than adderall. A lot of the students who take adderall for finals/sats buy it off their friends who are prescribed it, and they do report back a very focused mindset in both their studying and actual taking of the test. However, having never tried it (more of a moral thing for me…) I can’t give you a solid answer as to its effects. People consider those who abuse adderall to be academic “cheaters”, as they are given an unfair advantage. I did make higher sats and maintain a higher GPA than all of the adderall users, thought, and there is a very odd yet strikingly high correlation between the regular adderall users and the regular drug abusers.