American Voices

Kids Using Drugs To Study

December 1, 2004 | ISSUE 40•48

Studies show that more and more college students are abusing prescription ADHD drugs like Adderall and Ritalin to help them study. What do you think?

  • Slippage in grades is a sure sign your child may not be on drugs.

    Ed Wills
    Driver

  • These drugs help them study? Wow. Turns out drugs aren't cool after all.

    Jeffrey Stuart
    Surgeon

  • Taking Ritalin to study is very dangerous. If you let your focus drift, you'll spend the night scrubbing your telephone.

    Danielle Carlson
    Novelist

  • It turns out the main ingredient in Adderall is dextroamphetamine. So all these years, long-haul truckers have been a vast, untapped intellectual resource?

    Scott Wolman
    Cashier

  • Hell, I don't blame them. Back in law school, I had to take all kinds of drugs just to be able to appreciate art and music.

    Stephen Underhill
    Lawyer

  • When I was a kid, we didn't have drugs to help us study. If we wanted to get good grades, we had no choice but to stop getting drunk.

    Dana Williams
    Personal Shopper

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