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"ADHD drugs have become the campus recreational drug of choice at parties" Is there any well documented evidence for this? It certainly contradicts my personal

by fhood 9y ago

"ADHD drugs have become the campus recreational drug of choice at parties" Is there any well documented evidence for this? It certainly contradicts my personal observations.

pdelbarba 9y ago
ADHD drugs almost certainly means adderall which is pretty heavily abused as a recreational drug, especially on college campuses. It's relatively easy to acquire a prescription and it's an amphetamine.
- snowpanda 9y ago
  Right but he/she asked for evidence, for which there is non that I'm aware of. Given that it's the Huffington Post, it's most likely a baseless claim.
  - pdelbarba 9y ago
    http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2016/adderall-misuse-rising-among-young-adults.html http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2016/adderall-misuse... Edit: good article about the subject in general https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/generation-adderall-addiction.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/generation-adder...
    - twright0 9y ago
      Both of those articles are discussing the use of Adderall as a study aid, not a party drug. I think folks in this thread are objecting to its depiction as the latter specifically, not the fact that it is heavily used on college campuses in general. > In college, especially, these drugs are used as study-aid medication to help students stay up all night and cram. > My friend pulled two blue pills out of tinfoil and handed them to me. An hour later, I was in the basement of the library, hunkered down in the Absolute Quiet Room, in a state of peerless ecstasy.
closeparen 9y ago
At parties? I was under the impression that it's a performance enhancing drug popular in libraries.
lowpro 9y ago
Anecdotal but where I go to school (a top university) people often will drink then take adderall since it focuses you while you're drunk so you don't seem as drunk but can still have fun. I highly doubt however that it's more popular then molly and I know it isn't as popular as weed, which is still the recreational drug of choice. This might be skewed as coming from a good university hard drugs aren't as popular as some other schools, but I think it's enough to debunk a baseless claim.
hansreiter 9y ago
Ask Hacker News for what goes on at parties and you are going to get skewed results. Yes, people use this to party. But no, I don't think you are going to find a ton of a paper trail for this in journals.

by fhood 9y ago

"ADHD drugs have become the campus recreational drug of choice at parties" Is there any well documented evidence for this? It certainly contradicts my personal observations.

pdelbarba 9y ago

ADHD drugs almost certainly means adderall which is pretty heavily abused as a recreational drug, especially on college campuses. It's relatively easy to acquire a prescription and it's an amphetamine.

snowpanda 9y ago
Right but he/she asked for evidence, for which there is non that I'm aware of. Given that it's the Huffington Post, it's most likely a baseless claim.
- pdelbarba 9y ago
  http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2016/adderall-misuse-rising-among-young-adults.html http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2016/adderall-misuse... Edit: good article about the subject in general https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/generation-adderall-addiction.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/generation-adder...
  - twright0 9y ago
    Both of those articles are discussing the use of Adderall as a study aid, not a party drug. I think folks in this thread are objecting to its depiction as the latter specifically, not the fact that it is heavily used on college campuses in general. > In college, especially, these drugs are used as study-aid medication to help students stay up all night and cram. > My friend pulled two blue pills out of tinfoil and handed them to me. An hour later, I was in the basement of the library, hunkered down in the Absolute Quiet Room, in a state of peerless ecstasy.

closeparen 9y ago

At parties? I was under the impression that it's a performance enhancing drug popular in libraries.

lowpro 9y ago

Anecdotal but where I go to school (a top university) people often will drink then take adderall since it focuses you while you're drunk so you don't seem as drunk but can still have fun. I highly doubt however that it's more popular then molly and I know it isn't as popular as weed, which is still the recreational drug of choice. This might be skewed as coming from a good university hard drugs aren't as popular as some other schools, but I think it's enough to debunk a baseless claim.

hansreiter 9y ago

Ask Hacker News for what goes on at parties and you are going to get skewed results. Yes, people use this to party. But no, I don't think you are going to find a ton of a paper trail for this in journals.