Many people are wondering will medication help students concentrate more on tests? This new trend giving students drug to do better on Standardized tests is becoming to wonder to everybody. When taking medication, it should be for what the doctor prescribes you not to do better on tests. To researching on …show more content…
Most illegal users reported using ADHD stimulants primarily in periods of high academic stress and found them to reduce fatigue while increasing reading comprehension, interest, cognition, and memory." The drug of the ADHD medication can also prompt common side effects, such as low appetite, Delayed growth, tics, stomach pain, or sleep problems. Getting the right dosage is important for minimizing side effects. Many school kids use more than the amount of dosage they're suppose to take which causes the side effects to become more strong towards the body. According to WWW.drugfree.org ,"High School kids have been taking ADHD Medication for better grades. This source says Teens get them from friends, buy them from student dealers, or pretend to have ADHD in order to get prescriptions.
These medications can calm people with ADHD, but they can provide energy and focus for people without the disorder. Abusing these drugs can lead to mood swings and depression, heart irregularities and extreme exhaustion or even psychosis during withdrawal, according to medical experts. There is little evidence about the long-term effects of young people abusing these …show more content…
A very high grade to a failing grade. The symptoms of the medications have the affects of changing your test scores or style of learning.
For many children, ADHD medication curb restlessness, impulsivity, and inattention well enough for them to flourish at home, school, and on the playground. But the drugs can also prompt common side effects, such as low appetite, stomach pain, or sleep problems. children and adults have different symptoms of the medication.
It says that taking ADHD medication when you're not supposed can become risks and having symptoms that can become life threatening. When you keep taking this medication and stop taking it after a period of time it can cause lacking of daily things you do in life. I think that overall this new trend seems to have become a daily thing to take ADHD medication for students to do better in school and social life. I believe that taking ADHD medication just to do better in school is not right. I think there are too many risks to take this medication if you don’t have the disorder. If having ADHD I think taking the medication is the right thing to do. I think this new trend is not safe or necessary to become "more smart" relying on medication. Now I think they should stop this trend for the dangerous effects and symptoms that could happen. Adults and Children have different effects from the medications