<p>I recently heard this from 3 college students at 3 different schools. Two of the schools were Berkeley and the Claremont Colleges. My S’s GF at another university said in her major which is a competitive science it is widespread. Of course my S who has been prescribed meds since Middle School refuses to use his. My 2012 D also hates to use her Ritalin. Both of them hate the feeling they get when on it.</p>
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<p>In coffee there is water, coffee beans and maybe milk, maybe sugar and other flavorings.
Red Bull contains taurine, glucuronolactone, caffeine, B vitamins, sucrose, and glucose. Neither is probably considered healthy in high consumption but Adderall is made up of dextroamphetamine saccharate, amphetamine aspartate monohydrate, dextroamphetamine sulfate USP,and amphetamine sulfate USP. Adderall is not the same as coffee, diet coke, Red Bull or even caffeine pills. Adderall is a Schedule II drug as are Cocaine, Meth, Oxycodone and others. Don’t kid yourselves because Adderall is “socially acceptable”. Used properly and as prescribed it can be justified and helpful for people that absolutely need it. As the drug of the day for students it is unacceptable.</p>
<p>i would not put energy drinks in the same category as coffee</p>
<p>[The</a> Dangers of Red Bull](<a href=“http://www.balancedhealthblueprint.com/574/dangers-red-bull/]The”>http://www.balancedhealthblueprint.com/574/dangers-red-bull/)</p>
<p>Red Bull is banned in France, Norway, Denmark, and Uruguay with other countries currently performing studies of their own.</p>
<p>Again, amphetamines are FDA schedule II- there is no higher an addicting schedule.</p>
<p>My daughter was switched to Vyvanse for completely other reasons a few years ago but the one definite benefit to that drug is that the way it metabolizes is very different and it cannot be used recreationally. That said, it still could be taken by someone and get the regular slow released stimulant effect. D was concerned about such problems before she went to college. She hasn’t told others she is taking the drug and since she takes others more frequently for other issues, I would think people would assume she is just taking more blood pressure meds.</p>
<p>A friend of mine was prescribed Adderal after a short struggle with depression. She was a very high achiever (ended up at a top 5) and was having a lot of difficulty concentrating. Her doc prescribed the drug to help her concentrate at school. She took them for about 3 months, said she needed more as time went on, and felt absolutely horrible when she “came down” at night. Don’t know if this is what happens to people who don’t have ADHD. Anyway, the only thing that got her “off” them was summer vacation.</p>
<p>I don’t think I feel “cheated” by anyone using these drugs. There are consequences to everything. Besides, you can find people that cheat at just about everything.</p>
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<p>I agree, all sorts of ways to cheat. And some students use them for actual need, not just because they want the boost!</p>
<p>Adderall addiction can be very serious business, and we are seeing more and more of it in our drug treatment system all the time. The drugs may have a legitimate therapeutic use (though I think them way overprescribed, perhaps by an order of magnitude), and we know little about their long-term physical and mental impacts. (Many of the other psychotherapeutics, used for other conditions, and thought to be perfectly safe, have turned out to have substantial impacts on morbidity and mortality when used over the long-term.)</p>
<p>Just sayin’, “Be careful out there.”</p>
<p>I took it (legally) my last year in college. I felt like I was going insane but it got me through an otherwise horrible time in my life (both my grandmothers got sick and died within 3 weeks of each other) I honestly don’t know if I could have made it that year without it. My accounting grades went from 10’s and 30’s (yes on a 100 pt scale) to 85’s and 88’s with it. I made my mouth very, very dry (I used every mouth spray/wash I could think of) and it gave me severe tooth decay because of it.</p>