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What you may have took back then was "cross-tops", not actually an
amphetamine. I know I took a lot of them in the late seventies. <br>
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It was actually strychnine, i.e. rat poison. The speedy effect is
your adrenalin helping your body fight the stuff.<br>
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I hear that Adderall is a pretty fun (and clean) speed high. I
haven't tried it though, (a Dr. wanted to prescribe it for me once,
but I actually prefer being ADD).<br>
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What worries me is how many kids are strung out on the shit due to
their Dr.'s orders.<br>
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Dave<br>
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<div>We used amphetamines in college way back in the 50s for
exactly the same thing..late night studying or finishing
assignments before deadlines because we’d put everything off
till the last minute. I sure wasn’t unique in my habits,
and this was Baylor University where we didn’t drink, smoke,
or even dance (in public,) but we did use those little
pills. I don’t think much has changed here. Everybody used
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<h1>Risky Rise of the Good-Grade Pill</h1>
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<p>He steered into the high school parking lot, clicked
off the ignition and scanned the scraps of his recent
weeks. Crinkled chip bags on the dashboard. Soda cups at
his feet. And on the passenger seat, a rumpled SAT
practice book whose owner had been told since fourth
grade he was headed to the Ivy League. Pencils up in 20
minutes. </p>
<p>The boy exhaled. Before opening the car door, he
recalled recently, he twisted open a capsule of orange
powder and arranged it in a neat line on the armrest. He
leaned over, closed one nostril and snorted it. </p>
<p>Throughout the parking lot, he said, eight of his
friends did the same thing. </p>
<p>The drug was not cocaine or heroin, but Adderall, an <a
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prescribed for <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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deficit hyperactivity disorder</a> that the boy said
he and his friends routinely shared to study late into
the night, focus during tests and ultimately get the
grades worthy of their prestigious high school in an
affluent suburb of New York City. The drug did more than
just jolt them awake for the 8 a.m. SAT; it gave them a
tunnel focus tailor-made for the marathon of tests long
known to make or break college applications. </p>
<p>“Everyone in school either has a prescription or has a
friend who does,” the boy said. </p>
<p>At high schools across the United States, pressure over
grades and competition for college admissions are
encouraging students to abuse prescription stimulants,
according to interviews with students, parents and
doctors. Pills that have been a staple in some college
and graduate school circles are going from rare to
routine in many academically competitive high schools,
where teenagers say they get them from friends, buy them
from student dealers or fake symptoms to their parents
and doctors to get <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<p>Of the more than 200 students, school officials,
parents and others contacted for this article, about 40
agreed to share their experiences. Most students spoke
on the condition that they be identified by only a first
or middle name, or not at all, out of concern for their
college prospects or their school systems’ reputations —
and their own. </p>
<p>“It’s throughout all the private schools here,” said
DeAnsin Parker, a New York psychologist who treats many
adolescents from affluent neighborhoods like the Upper
East Side. “It’s not as if there is one school where
this is the culture. This is the culture.” </p>
<p>Observed Gary Boggs, a special agent for the <a
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across the United States.” </p>
<p>The D.E.A. lists prescription stimulants like <a
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and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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(amphetamines) and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0000606/">Ritalin</a>
and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0000223/">Focalin</a>
(methylphenidates) as Class 2 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/index.html">controlled
substances</a> — the same as cocaine and morphine —
because they rank among the most addictive substances
that have a medical use. (By comparison, the long-abused
anti-anxiety drug Valium is in the lower Class 4.) So
they carry high legal risks, too, as few teenagers
appreciate that merely giving a friend an Adderall or
Vyvanse pill is the same as selling it and can be
prosecuted as a felony. </p>
<p>While these medicines tend to calm people with
A.D.H.D., those without the disorder find that just one
pill can jolt them with the energy and focus to push
through all-night homework binges and stay awake during
exams afterward. “It’s like it does your work for you,”
said <a moz-do-not-send="true" title="Web page with
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a recent graduate of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bwl.org/RelId/33637/ISvars/default/Home.htm">Birch
Wathen Lenox School</a> on the Upper East Side of
Manhattan. </p>
<p>But abuse of prescription stimulants can lead to
depression and mood swings (from sleep deprivation),
heart irregularities and acute exhaustion or <a
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during withdrawal, doctors say. Little is known about
the long-term effects of abuse of stimulants among the
young. Drug counselors say that for some teenagers, the
pills eventually become an entry to the abuse of
painkillers and sleep aids. </p>
<p>“Once you break the seal on using pills, or any of that
stuff, it’s not scary anymore — especially when you’re
getting A’s,” said the boy who snorted Adderall in the
parking lot. He spoke from the couch of his drug
counselor, detailing how he later became addicted to the
painkiller Percocet and eventually heroin. </p>
<p>Paul L. Hokemeyer, a family therapist at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.caron.org/">Caron
Treatment Centers</a> in Manhattan, said: “Children
have prefrontal cortexes that are not fully developed,
and we’re changing the chemistry of the brain. That’s
what these drugs do. It’s one thing if you have a real
deficiency — the medicine is really important to those
people — but not if your deficiency is not getting into
Brown.” </p>
<p>The number of prescriptions for A.D.H.D. medications
dispensed for young people ages 10 to 19 has risen 26
percent since 2007, to almost 21 million yearly,
according to IMS Health, a health care information
company — a number that experts estimate corresponds to
more than two million individuals. But there is no
reliable research on how many high school students take
stimulants as a study aid. Doctors and teenagers from
more than 15 schools across the nation with high
academic standards estimated that the portion of
students who do so ranges from 15 percent to 40 percent.
</p>
<p>“They’re the A students, sometimes the B students, who
are trying to get good grades,” said one senior at Lower
Merion High School in Ardmore, a Philadelphia suburb,
who said he makes hundreds of dollars a week selling
prescription drugs, usually priced at $5 to $20 per
pill, to classmates as young as freshmen. “They’re the
quote-unquote good kids, basically.” </p>
<p>The trend was driven home last month to Nan Radulovic,
a psychotherapist in Santa Monica, Calif. Within a few
days, she said, an 11th grader, a ninth grader and an
eighth grader asked for prescriptions for Adderall
solely for better grades. From one girl, she recalled,
it was not quite a request. </p>
<p>“If you don’t give me the prescription,” Dr. Radulovic
said the girl told her, “I’ll just get it from kids at
school.” </p>
<p><strong>Keeping Everyone Happy</strong> </p>
<p>Madeleine surveyed her schedule of five <a
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Placement classes</a>, field hockey and several other
extracurricular activities and knew she could not handle
it all. The first physics test of the year — inclines,
friction, drag — loomed ominously over her college
prospects. A star senior at her Roman Catholic school in
Bethesda, Md., Madeleine knew a friend whose grades had
gone from B’s to A’s after being prescribed Ritalin, so
she asked her for a pill. </p>
<p>She got a 95. Thereafter, Madeleine recalled, she got
Adderall and Vyvanse capsules the rest of the year from
various classmates — not in exchange for money, she
said, but for tutoring them in calculus or proofreading
their English papers. </p>
<p>“Can I get a drink of water?” Madeleine said she would
ask the teacher in one class, before excusing herself
and heading to the water fountain. Making sure no one
was watching, she would remove a 40-milligram Vyvanse
capsule from her purse and swallow it. After 30 minutes,
the buzz began, she said: laser focus, instant recall
and the fortitude to crush any test in her path. </p>
<p>“People would have never looked at me and thought I
used drugs like that — I wasn’t that kid,” said
Madeleine, who has just completed her freshman year at
an Ivy League college and continues to use stimulants
occasionally. “It wasn’t that hard of a decision. Do I
want only four hours of sleep and be a mess, and then
underperform on the test and then in field hockey? Or
make the teachers happy and the coach happy and get good
grades, get into a good college and make my parents
happy?” </p>
<p>Madeleine estimated that one-third of her classmates at
her small school, most of whom she knew well, used
stimulants without a prescription to boost their
scholastic performance. Many students across the United
States made similar estimates for their schools, all of
them emphasizing that the drugs were used not to get
high, but mostly by conscientious students to work
harder and meet ever-rising academic expectations. </p>
<p>These estimates can be neither confirmed nor refuted
because little data captures this specific type of drug
misuse. A respected annual survey financed by the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.drugabuse.gov/">National Institute on
Drug Abuse</a>, “Monitoring the Future,” reports that
abuse of prescription amphetamines by 10th and 12th
graders nationally has actually dipped from the 1990s
and is remaining relatively steady at about 10 percent.
</p>
<p>However, some experts note that the survey does not
focus on the demographic where they believe such abuse
is rising steadily — students at high-pressure high
schools — and also that many teenagers barely know that
what they often call “study drugs” are in fact illegal
amphetamines. </p>
<p>“Isn’t it just like a vitamin?” asked one high school
junior from Eastchester, a suburb of New York. </p>
<p>Liz Jorgensen, a licensed addiction specialist who runs
Insight Counseling in Ridgefield, Conn., said her small
center had treated “at least 50 or 60” high school
students from southern Connecticut this school year
alone who had abused prescription stimulants for
academics. Ms. Jorgensen said some of those teenagers
landed in rehab directly from the stimulants or, more
often, grew comfortable with prescription drugs in
general and began abusing prescription painkillers like
OxyContin. </p>
<p>A spokesman for Shire, which manufactures Vyvanse and
Adderall’s extended-release capsules, said studies had
shown no link between prescribed use of those drugs and
later abuse. </p>
<p>Dr. Jeff Jonas, Shire’s senior vice president for
research and development, said that the company was
greatly concerned about the misuse of its stimulants but
that the rate was very small. “I’m not aware of any
systematic data that suggests there’s a widespread
problem,” he said. “You can always find people who
testify that it happens.” </p>
<p>Students who sell prescription stimulants to their
classmates focus on their burdens and insecurities. One
girl who sells to fellow students at Long Beach High
School on Long Island said: “These kids would get in
trouble if they don’t do well in school. When people
take tests, it’s immediately, ‘Who am I getting Adderall
from?’ They’re always looking for it.” </p>
<p>Every school identified in this article was contacted
regarding statements by its students and stimulant abuse
in general. Those that responded generally said that
they were concerned about some teenagers turning to
these drugs, but that their numbers were far smaller
than the students said. </p>
<p>David Weiss, superintendent of Long Beach Public
Schools, said the survey his district used to gauge
student drug use asked about only prescription
medications in general, not stimulants specifically. </p>
<p>“It has not been a surface issue for us — we’re much
more conscious of alcohol or other drug use,” Mr. Weiss
said in a telephone interview. “We haven’t had word that
it’s a widespread issue.” </p>
<p>Douglas Young, a spokesman for the Lower Merion School
District outside Philadelphia, said prescription
stimulant abuse was covered in various student-wellness
initiatives as well as in the 10th-grade health
curriculum. Mr. Young expressed frustration that many
parents seemed oblivious to the problem. </p>
<p>“It’s time for a serious wake-up call,” Mr. Young said.
“Straight A’s and high SAT scores look great on paper,
but they aren’t reflective measures of a student’s
health and well-being. We need to better understand the
pressures and temptations, and ultimately we need to
embrace new definitions of student success. For many
families and communities, that’s simply not happening.”
</p>
<p><strong>Fooling the Doctors</strong> </p>
<p>During an interview in March, the dealer at Lower
Merion High reached into his pocket and pulled out the
container for his daily stash of the prescription
stimulants Concerta and Focalin: a hollowed-out bullet.
Unlike his other products — <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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and heroin, which come from higher-level dealers — his
amphetamines came from a more trusted, and trusting,
source, he said. </p>
<p>“I lie to my psychiatrist — I expressed feelings I
didn’t really have, knowing the consequences of it,” he
said, standing in a park a few miles from the high
school. “I tell the doctor, ‘I find myself very
distracted, and I feel this really deep pain inside,
like I’m anxious all the time,’ or something like that.”
</p>
<p>He coughed out a chuckle and added proudly, “Generally,
if you keep playing the angsty-teen role, you’ll get
something good.” </p>
<p>Christine, a junior sitting nearby, said she followed
the well-known lines to get her drugs directly and
legally, a script for scripts. “I’m not able to focus on
schoolwork,” she said in a mockingly anxious voice. “I’m
constantly looking out the window.” Although she often
uses the drugs herself, snorting them for a faster and
more intense effect, she said she preferred to save them
for when her customers crave them most. </p>
<p>“Right before everybody took the PSATs, a bunch of kids
went to the bathroom to snort their Addies,” she said. </p>
<p>This is one of the more vexing problems with stimulants
in high schools, experts said — the drugs enter the
schools via students who get them legally, if not
legitimately. </p>
<p>Older A.D.H.D. drugs required low doses every few
hours, and schools, not wanting students to carry the
drugs themselves, had the school nurse hold and dispense
the pills. Newer long-lasting versions like Adderall XR
and Vyvanse allow parents to give children a single dose
in the morning, often unaware that the pills can go down
a pants pocket as easily as the throat. Some students
said they took their pills only during the week and gave
their weekend pills to friends. </p>
<p>The mother of one high school freshman in Westchester
County said she would open the kitchen cabinet every
morning and watch her son take his prescribed dose of
Ritalin. She noticed one day that the capsule was
strangely airy and held it up to the light. It was
empty. </p>
<p>“There were a few times we were short in the month, and
I couldn’t understand why,” recalled the woman, whose
son was in eighth grade at the time. “It never dawned on
me until I found those empty capsules, and then I
started discovering the little packets of powder. He was
selling it to other kids.” </p>
<p>A number of teenagers interviewed laughed at the ease
with which they got some doctors to write prescriptions
for A.D.H.D. The disorder’s definition requires
inattentiveness, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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or impulse control to present “clinically significant
impairment” in at least two settings (school and home,
for example), according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. Crucially, some of this
impairment must have been in evidence by age 7; a proper
diagnosis for a teenager claiming to have A.D.H.D.,
several doctors said, requires interviewing parents,
teachers and others to confirm that the problems existed
long before. </p>
<p>Many youngsters with prescriptions said their doctors
merely listened to their stories and took out their
prescription pads. Dr. Hilda R. Roque, a primary-care
physician in West New York, N.J., said she never
prescribed A.D.H.D. medicine but knew many doctors who
did. She said many parents could push as hard for
prescriptions as their children did, telling her: “My
child is not doing well in school. I understand there
are meds he can take to make him smarter.” </p>
<p>“To get a prescription for Adderall was the Golden
Ticket — it really was,” said William, the recent
graduate of Birch Wathen in Manhattan. </p>
<p>A high school senior in Connecticut who has used his
friend’s Adderall for school said: “These are academic <a
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But usually, parents don’t get the steroids for you.” </p>
<p>As with the steroids taken by athletes, the downside of
prescription stimulants appears after they provide the
desired short-term competitive benefits. This was the
case with a recent graduate of McLean High School in
Virginia, one of the top public schools in the
Washington area. </p>
<p>Late in his sophomore year, the boy wanted some help to
raise his B average — far from what top colleges
expected, especially from a McLean student. So he told
his psychologist what she needed to hear for a diagnosis
of A.D.H.D. — even gazing out the window during the
appointment for effect — and was soon getting 30 pills
of Adderall every month, 10 milligrams each. They
worked. He focused late into the night studying,
concentrated better during exams and got an A-minus
average for his junior year. </p>
<p>“I wanted to do everything I could to get into the
quote-unquote right school,” he recalled recently. </p>
<p>As senior year began, when another round of SATs and
one last set of good grades could put him over the top,
the boy said he still had trouble concentrating. The
doctor prescribed 30 milligrams a day. When college
applications hit, he bought extra pills for $5 apiece
from a girl in French class who had fooled her
psychiatrist, too, and began taking several on some
days. </p>
<p>The boy said that as his A-minus average continued
through senior year, no one suspected that “a kid who
went to Bible camp” and had so improved his grades could
be abusing drugs. By the time he was accepted and had
enrolled at a good but not great college, he was up to
300 milligrams a day — constantly taking more to stave
off the inevitable crash. </p>
<p>One night, after he had taken about 400 milligrams, his
heart started beating wildly. He began hallucinating and
then convulsing. He was rushed to the emergency room and
wound up spending seven months at a drug rehabilitation
center. </p>
<p>To his surprise, two of 20 fellow patients there had
also landed in rehab solely from abusing stimulants in
high school. </p>
<p>“No one seems to think that it’s a real thing — adults
on the outside looking in,” the boy said. “The other
kids in rehab thought we weren’t addicts because
Adderall wasn’t a real drug. It’s so underestimated.” </p>
<p><strong>‘No Way You’d Notice’</strong> </p>
<p>The Sklar family lives near the top of a daunting hill
in Ardsley, a comfortable suburb north of New York City.
Ardsley High School sends dozens of graduates every year
to Ivy League-caliber colleges. When students there use
Facebook, they all know that its founder, Mark
Zuckerberg, once walked the same halls. </p>
<p>At their kitchen table after school last month, Dodi
Sklar listened as her ninth-grade son, Jonathan,
described how some classmates already abused stimulants
— long before SATs and college applications. An
accomplished student who said he would never join them,
Jonathan described the ease with which he could. </p>
<p>“There’s no way you’d notice — that’s why so many kids
are doing it,” he told his mother. “I could say I’m
going for a run, call someone I know who does it, get
some pills from them, take them, come home and work.
Just do it. You’d be just glad that I was studying
hard.” </p>
<p>His mother sighed. “As a parent you worry about
driving, you worry about drinking, you worry about all
kinds of health and mental issues, social issues,” she
said. “Now I have to worry about this, too? Really? This
shouldn’t be what they need to do to get where they want
to.” </p>
<p>Asked if the improper use of stimulants was cheating,
students were split. Some considered that the extra
studying hours and the heightened focus during exams
amounted to an unfair advantage. Many countered that the
drugs “don’t give you the answers” and defended their
use as a personal choice for test preparation, akin to
tutoring. </p>
<p>One consensus was clear: users were becoming more
common, they said, and some students who would rather
not take the drugs would be compelled to join them
because of the competition over class rank and colleges’
interest. </p>
<p>A current law student in Manhattan, who said he dealt
Adderall regularly while at his high school in Sarasota,
Fla., said that insecurity was a main part of his sales
pitch: that those students “would feel at a huge
disadvantage,” he said. </p>
<p>William, the recent Birch Wathen graduate, said
prescription stimulants became a point of contention
when a girl with otherwise middling grades suddenly
improved her SAT score. </p>
<p>“There was an uproar among kids — some people were
really proud of her, and some kids were really jealous
and mad,” he recalled. “I don’t remember if she had a
prescription, but she definitely took more than was
prescribed. People would say, ‘You’re so smart,’ and
she’d say, ‘It wasn’t all me.’ ” </p>
<p>One sophomore at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hw.com/">Harvard-Westlake School</a>
in Studio City, Calif., is unsure what his future holds.
Enrolled at one of the top high schools on the West
Coast, he said he tried a friend’s Adderall this
semester but disliked the sensation of his heart beating
rapidly for hours. He vowed never to do it again. </p>
<p>But as he watches upperclassmen regularly abuse
stimulants as they compete for top college slots, he is
not quite sure. </p>
<p>“Junior and senior year is a whole new ballgame,” the
boy said. “I promised myself I wouldn’t take it, but
that can easily, easily change. I can be convinced.” </p>
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