So here I am. It's finals time (I'm in college still) and I'm sitting in my dorm on Thursday night. Breaking News: I have a 10 page paper and a test the next day I haven't even started on the paper (once again, I'm in college) and it's 3am. Luckily my buddy hooked me up with some adderall. I just wrote a 12 page paper, while simultaneously skimming a 400 page book, (The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang; I highly recommend it. It was fantastic, albeit a little depressing) in just about 3 hours. I don't understand why we can't all have access to this drug. Sure there are the usual harmful side-effects, but I literally feel like a super student when I'm on it. It's the only time I can stay focused enough to actually get large amounts of work done.
Something about timed writes makes me tense up, roll over, and die inside. I entirely overlooked diction and used primary words that made my paper an enormous disaster. I had little to no warrants connecting my
What student would not like to write a huge paper within in an hour instead of four hours? Adderal is a cognitive enhancing stimulant; according to Danielle Bickelmann
Finished moving all of my stuff in. Busy exploring campus. It’s amazing the things you can find in a university when there are no adults to tell you “No”. All the doors are locked with electronic deadbolts though. Really hard to bust open without an ID. Luckily, the Librarian left hers in the top drawer and that can get me into the staff offices. Piece of cake really!
Patients are intrigued by the idea that a medication will actually fight for them and be a powerful ally, in comparison to their current treatment that does “just enough” to get them by. They can
As a species, humans have a long and bloodied history of attempting to eliminate one another to become dominant, from the Armenian genocide to the ethnic cleansing of the Tutsis in Rwanda. This mentality is not a new phenomenon, but has evolved to become even more lethal and prolific with the innovations in weaponry and transportation. Due to this disturbing universality, parallels are easily drawn between Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking and the art that was being created in Europe and the United States during the time of Hitler’s reign, including the work Seligmann, Stael and Albright. We must look to other global sources for this insight, due to the lack of photographic documentation in China and creation of art after the fact.
Neuroenhancing drugs are easily available. People who are prescribed to drugs like Ritalin and Adderall are selling it to classmates. People who are prescribed to it often abuse the drug. Everyone I know has either tried this type of drug or know someone who has. People who sell their medication to people who don’t need it are just like a drug dealer selling marijuana. Which is just as bad. So why isn’t it
because some people feel like they need it more than what they actually do. Adderall is used to
“Hey Christy how was your day?” It was great I bought these really cute pair of shoes from the mall and they were half off you have to go with me next time.
Unfortunately, side effects are often go hand in hand with just about any drug; some more severe than others. Despite the strict regulation the FDA says it implements to ensure the highest possible safety of the drugs it approves for the public, it does pass drugs with a variety of side effects that range from dry-mouth to thoughts of suicide and potentially fatal internal problems. WebMD’s Information and Resources section explains how the FDA are able to justify this, by saying that as long
Medication is a wonderful thing, and there's absolutely no shame in taking medication for anything. However, medications all affect us differently, especially Adderall. If you know me, you know I suffer from ADHD and I am thankful for adderall because it helped me get back on track my first three years of high school, and kept me from failing out. However, by my senior year it had just done a number on me. Sure, when it was in effect I could focus but when it wore off... I have never felt more lethargic or anxious ever, not to mention that I was at least 20 pounds underweight. When I got home from school I would just nap all night, because I was so tired and literally didn't have any more energy. I wouldn't eat during lunch time, and I was
“Hey, do you know where I could get some Adderall?” I glanced up from my notes to see a fellow college student peering over my cubicle. I was startled that a random person would approach me in the library, which is generally a no-talking area. Stuttering nervously, I replied, “I’m sorry, I don’t know.” The student shrugged and walked away, presumably to ask someone else. Coming from a small town to a big city in Los Angeles for my first year of college, my exposure to any drugs prior to this event was minimal and, shaken from the event, I decided to confide in a friend I had recently made from biology class. “Well, we are premeds. How else do you expect people to get through organic chemistry?” was her dismissive response. Once again, I was shocked. Was it normal to take unprescribed medication? No one thought twice about any side effects or run ins with the law?
It is an atypical antipsychotic drug, the first medication to be approved with the system. The FDA said the drug was approved for treatment of schizophrenia, acute treatment of manic and mixed episodes linked with bipolar I disorder, and as an add-on treatment for depression in adults.
The season is finally here, many college students are making their way into the library and cramming information left and right for finals in hopes of not failing. With scholarly grades, comes hours of study sessions and hard work which results in an tremendous amount of stress put on an individual. As a result, many students resort to a different route and illegally acquire cognitive enhancements drugs in hopes of balancing their education and personal life. My first experience with these “Smart Drugs” was during finals week in my senior year of highschool, I was given several adderall pills from a close scholar friend and he briefly explained how these pills would aid me greatly during this stressful time. The first pill I took, I felt a great euphoric feeling within minutes and I knew this wouldn’t be the last time I would take this. Education in today’s society can be perceived as a competition between students as employers are searching to recruit the top students out of college. Therefore, students will do anything at any cause to be categorized as the top of their class. With all this in mind, it becomes apparent that college students find the need to use cognitive enhancing drugs to gain an edge among their education due to the superior benefits gained through the use of it.
1. Sub Point: Baylor University does a nice job of summing up student motives of such drastic behavior in its 2005 article “Study Drugs Still Popular despite Health Risks”.
The past four weeks has been a challenge. I am the type who don’t like to do over a six-page paper. But when I get a change to write a paper about something I am passionate about then doing eight to ten-page paper is not that bad. Effective Copywriting give me the opportunity to write about something I am passionate about that’s why to me a few times in my paper I went into a different direction about my subject but I was still talking about it. I also like that some of the information that I put on the discussion board I got to use in the paper. So that help me with my paper.