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Adderall Abuse Hot Topic on Campus
Narconon Warns Students About Addiction to Adderall
Mary Rieser, Executive director of Narconon Drug Rehab, explains that more and more drug addicts are seeking help for Adderall addiction. “There is a lot of pressure on high school and college students to perform well in school,” says Ms. Rieser. “Some students believe that turning to Adderall will help them study, focus more and do better on tests, when all it really does is keep them up for hours at a time, and the materials studied are not fully grasped. No one staying up all night studying will remember their information after the test is done and over.”
Adderall is a mixture of amphetamine salts that can be obtained by a prescription. However, the FDA has deemed this drug a Schedule II controlled substance, which means that it has a high potential for abuse and addiction.
One recovering addict says, “The first time I took Adderall was for Freshman Finals. I had to cram for exams, because I needed to get good grades. It helped me study. I did well on those finals. Then my roommate the next semester had a prescription, so I got them from her.”
She continued with, “When I moved into the sorority house almost all of the girls had prescriptions. It was easy to find. Four years later, I realized I had a problem when I wasn’t just taking it to study anymore. I wasn’t just using it to get good grades anymore. I was taking it all the time.”
Ms. Rieser states: “Adderall has side effects other than addiction; it can lead to insomnia, depression and even death. This is pretty frightening considering that some colleges have reported that up to 75% of their students have taken this drug. Without proper education on the dangers of Adderall, more students who think they will get better grades will end up addicted.”
For more information on drug addiction rehabilitation or drug education, call Narconon of Georgia at 1-877-413-3073.
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