In a competitive society today, students on university campuses all around the United States are buying and selling prescription drugs such as Adderall for the purpose of cognitive enhancement. Using this drug to achieve a “high” is usually not the purpose, rather the motives for illicit use of Adderall were to help with concentration, memory heightening, help study, and increase mental alertness, with 90% of users doing it for this purpose (Greely, 2008). The amphetamine-dextroamphetamine in Adderall generates dopamine at a greater level in the brain as well as increasing the levels of norepinephrine, which has been associated with improved cognitive functioning (Teter, 2006). College students can stay up late writing papers and cramming for exams with this drug and they say it keeps them up
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For a student running an organization and taking part in a number of extracurricular activities and has tasks that take up 40 hours per week, Adderall makes it possible for him/her to accomplish more than the body can permit. This is a problem for society today because these pills are being readily accessible through friends’ prescriptions and online pharmacies with lax requirements. They can be shared, sold, bought, and exchanged due to poor safety regulations. Thus, abuse potential of prescription stimulants by college students poses an important public health problem because California has the lowest percentage of youth with ADHD being treated with Adderall but the highest percentage being used illicitly among college students (Shillington, 2006). The standard dose for humans with ADHD or narcolepsy is 5 to 60 mg daily administered up to three doses. However, students may be uninformed about the toxic effects of Adderall when used for non-medical purposes. Adderall can have inadvertent side effects that can be catastrophic if taken at a lethal
For a student running an organization and taking part in a number of extracurricular activities and has tasks that take up 40 hours per week, Adderall makes it possible for him/her to accomplish more than the body can permit. This is a problem for society today because these pills are being readily accessible through friends’ prescriptions and online pharmacies with lax requirements. They can be shared, sold, bought, and exchanged due to poor safety regulations. Thus, abuse potential of prescription stimulants by college students poses an important public health problem because California has the lowest percentage of youth with ADHD being treated with Adderall but the highest percentage being used illicitly among college students (Shillington, 2006). The standard dose for humans with ADHD or narcolepsy is 5 to 60 mg daily administered up to three doses. However, students may be uninformed about the toxic effects of Adderall when used for non-medical purposes. Adderall can have inadvertent side effects that can be catastrophic if taken at a lethal