Adderall

The amount of drug use in sports, especially baseball is unimaginable. “Estimates of steroid use have varied wildly. Jose Canseco estimated that 85% of major leaguers were also using steroids”(“Steroids-BR…”). Professional athletes must be drug tested multiple times throughout their season because the drugs that they are using could have poor physical and mental effects on their body, these drugs give an unfair advantage to those who are using the performance enhancing drugs and if these players…

Nootropics are very popular right now, and for good reason; they are sometimes called "smart drugs" since they improve cognition and brain function with chemicals, supplements, and even functional foods in some cases. The best nootropics will noticeable improve memory, intelligence, cognition, motivation, attention, and other brain and psychological issues, and are used for people who want to complete everything from test cramming to bodybuilding. Many nootropics are legally available over the…

If people would really think about it, no one in the right mind would kill a mass number of people for no reason at all. Almost every mass shooter has been on some sort of psychotropic drug. It is know that these psychotropic drugs such as Adderall cause a certain percentage of people to go insane and commit such acts as mass murders. When so many people are prescribed these drugs its inevitable that more and more people will go out and mass murder people. The big pharmaceutical companies are…

need to help them. Which usually are going through mental health class, this helps you get through your problems with symptoms for ADHD but not enough to have ADHD. ADHD students have multiple different drugs that they could take to help such as Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin. And some even take all of them. These drugs are highly over prescribed and the overdosage of these drugs has a big impact on the streets as more people can get ahold of these drugs because they will prescribe them to people…

There are laws specific to each state in the country regarding the prescribing of medications and therapeutic devices by medical professionals. The state of Ohio allows Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) the ability to prescribe under specific conditions. The Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP), Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Nurse Midwife (CNM) and Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) may obtain a certificate to prescribe after successfully completing a graduate degree in the specialty that…

taking eighteen credits last fall, I felt the pressure building up and if I was given the chance, I might have just taken it and dealt with the consequences later.” The next paragraph starts off, “Being on a college campus, people talk about taking Adderall to help them through finals or even daily.” I know there was more than likely no transition before editing the paper and having the peer…

dizziness, vertigo, irritability, and mood swings (Rosack, 2002). According to Shatkin (2009), “stimulants remain the most effective and commonly employed treatment for ADHD” (p.46). Some common stimulant medications used to treat ADHD include: Concerta, Adderall, Ritalin, Vyvanse, Daytrana, Focalin, Methylin, Metadate, Dexedrine, and DextroStat. Nausea, headaches, insomnia, and decreased appetite are the four most common side effects of stimulants used to treat ADHD (Shatkin, 2009, p. 50). If…

have never been the student to freak out about school and when things are due, I usually just brush it off and see how it goes. But chemistry really struck me, “This isn’t some thing I can cram finish the night before. This requires some late night, adderall-induced…

According to Barkley (1997), the satisfactory development of inhibition is necessary for normal functioning in the following neuropsychological abilities: working memory, internalization of speech, self-regulation of affect—motivation—arousal, reconstitution, and motor control—fluency—syntax. As I understood it, the first four of these are are involved in self-regulation, and self-regulation gives rise to the direction and persistence of behavior towards future-oriented goals and the ability to…

It is often said that human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Countless movies make use of this common canard to transform ordinary characters into amazing brainiacs who can learn new languages, solve complex math equations, even control people with their minds. Such is the storyline of the 2014 film Lucy, in which the titular character becomes a super genius after ingesting a nootropic drug. In spite of the fact that the ten-percent brain myth is entirely unfounded, there is some…