Adderall is a drug that was introduced in America in 1996 intended for use in children with learning or behavioral difficulties.
It is a stimulant combination of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine, also known as speed.
It has been well documented that giving a highly addictive stimulant to people of all ages will create dependency and carry heavy side effects such as heart attacks, sleeplessness, irritability and aggression.
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) showed that full-time college students between the ages of 18 and 22 were twice as likely to use Adderall nonmedically than other young adults their age not in college.
Those students who did use the drug nonmedically were also 3 times as likely to have used marijuana in the past year, 5 times more likely to have abused painkillers and 8 times more likely to have used cocaine or abused prescription sedatives and tranquilizers.
The survey also found that 90 percent of full-time college students who used Adderall nonmedically in the past year were also past month binge drinkers, and more than half were heavy alcohol users.
According to the National Library of Medicine, additional side effects include nervousness, restlessness, difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, uncontrollable shaking of a part of the body, headache, changes in sex drive or ability,dry mouth, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, chest pain and diarrhea.
A growing trend is for college students to fake learning problems so they can get prescriptions for Adderall to abuse and to use to stay up all night studying or as an appetite suppressant.
They also abuse others' prescriptions or buy it from someone.
Adderall is even becoming a new gateway drug for other substance abuse The latest The problem of prescription stimulant abuse has become such a large one that there are now thousands of web pages offering help for Adderall addiction treatment, as the rehabilitation process for someone addicted to a drug like this would be very similar to someone addicted to methamphetamine or cocaine, and a long-term, drug-free approach would be most recommended.
It is a stimulant combination of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine, also known as speed.
It has been well documented that giving a highly addictive stimulant to people of all ages will create dependency and carry heavy side effects such as heart attacks, sleeplessness, irritability and aggression.
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) showed that full-time college students between the ages of 18 and 22 were twice as likely to use Adderall nonmedically than other young adults their age not in college.
Those students who did use the drug nonmedically were also 3 times as likely to have used marijuana in the past year, 5 times more likely to have abused painkillers and 8 times more likely to have used cocaine or abused prescription sedatives and tranquilizers.
The survey also found that 90 percent of full-time college students who used Adderall nonmedically in the past year were also past month binge drinkers, and more than half were heavy alcohol users.
According to the National Library of Medicine, additional side effects include nervousness, restlessness, difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, uncontrollable shaking of a part of the body, headache, changes in sex drive or ability,dry mouth, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, chest pain and diarrhea.
A growing trend is for college students to fake learning problems so they can get prescriptions for Adderall to abuse and to use to stay up all night studying or as an appetite suppressant.
They also abuse others' prescriptions or buy it from someone.
Adderall is even becoming a new gateway drug for other substance abuse The latest The problem of prescription stimulant abuse has become such a large one that there are now thousands of web pages offering help for Adderall addiction treatment, as the rehabilitation process for someone addicted to a drug like this would be very similar to someone addicted to methamphetamine or cocaine, and a long-term, drug-free approach would be most recommended.
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