Various medications around the world can be effective in many ways to treat a variety of illness and conditions, but if misused some can be addictive and dangerous. College students around the country abuse different medications and drugs, one such one being adderall. Going along with that, many of these students who may be abusing adderall may not even have a prescription for it.
Aderrall is a prescription medication that is used for ADHD, attention deficit disorder. ADHD involves an inability to pay attention, hyperactivity, and impulse actions, and the medication adderral is used to help people focus and concentrate in order to deal with this condition.
Access to prescription drugs, especially adderall, now-a-days is really not very hard. There are a number of people who have prescriptions for it who can easily give to other people who don’t have a prescription.
There is a general consensus that stimulants like Adderall increase performance in people who do and do not have ADHD. So, if a better GPA can be obtained by college students with less effort being put forth, the idea that college students are going to obtain Adderall any way they can is brought forth. There are many students that actually go in to see a doctor and exaggerate the symptoms of ADHD so that they can acquire the medication.
This idea leads to the question that everyone seems to think of. Is it morally right to use adderall without a prescription? Should people take any means that they can in life to get by and succeed, all other thoughts and consequences aside?
Junior Kevin Wright at Wittenberg University has used aderrall on a variety of occasions. The majority of these occasions though have been related to schoolwork. Wright stated, “I leave a lot of my work to do at the last minute. It is a bad habit that I have gotten accustom to. When I need to get a lot done in a short amount of time, I typically turn to adderall. It has really helped me get stuff done, that I otherwise wouldn’t have. Lucky for me, one of my good friends here has a prescription for it because he has ADHD so I have easy access to it whenever I need it.”
Another student at the University of Connecticut described his usage of adderall. Freshman, James Winter used it for finals last semester. This is the only time he ever used it. He stated, “It made me feel focused on my work. I really believe that it helps and works. I still failed half of my finals but that is because my classes are nearly impossible, not because the adderall didn’t help.”
Wright and Winter are examples of college students who do not have a prescription for adderrall but have used it for performance enhancing purposes in school in order to try and get work done at the last minute and achieve better grades in school.
The consequences of adderall abuse can be very dangerous. Taking high doses of any stimulant can result in things like an irregular heartbeat, extremely high body temperatures, and even the potential of cardiovascular failure, or seizures. Many students who take adderall, especially the ones without a prescription, are unaware of these effects.
Junior Alex Gonzalez from Columbus, Ohio, actually has attention deficit disorder and takes a form of adderall called concerta every day. Gonzalez stated, “ I think it is a rising problem that many college students take it who aren’t prescribed to take it and that many people don’t know enough about the drug to really be using it. There is a lot of danger and side effects that could possibly come about from taking it too much or taking it without being prescribed to.”
Taking adderall without a prescription for it and abusing it seems like a problem that is only getting worse and is a matter that really needs to be considered, understood, and addressed.
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