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The Adderall Controversy That Isn’t
Is this simply just a social crime?
My RA back in college had an exemplary record- Honor roll, numerous academic and extracurricular awards, he was an exemplary student with a respectable reputation to boot. It’s all the more of a shame that after a random drug test, he popped hot and wasn’t able to graduate, thus forced to leave the campus about a week before he would have been able to walk across the stage, take those classic post-ceremony photos of glee and pride with his family, and move on with his life. Was it Pot? Cocaine? Heroine? No, he didn’t get high at all actually or even go meet with some shady drug dealer.
It was a handful of Adderall tablets his roommate had given him so he could stay up longer to study for final exams that gave him his new moniker- “druggy.”
His story is like that of so many (potentially thousands) of college students each year who, under the immense pressure to succeed on final exams, go to remarkable lengths to stay awake, focus, and all the while trying to remain calm and balanced enough to function. From slamming cans of energy drinks to unhealthy amounts of coffee and other free and easily acceptable commercial stimulants, it’s quite odd when you observe the issue for what it really is to determine where the line is drawn between what is an acceptable stimulant and what…
