Brain Broding Research Paper

1/8/14
ENG-105
Elissa Abbott

STIMULANTS AND BRAIN BOOSTING

Everyone has experienced at one time or an intense need to accomplish more than can be done within 24 hours. Young college and high school students are especially under a great deal of pressure to do their best in an academic setting. Preparing for exams, pulling “all-nighters” for finals and even rushing to finish essays are just a small fraction of the everyday demands that they face. It’s easy to lose focus and become distracted at times like these. Success for these kids depends completely on how well they perform. Doing well becomes harder if they have to work in order to support themselves. The appeal to a drug that can fix it all has become a serious issue with college
ADHD was then referred to as hyperactivity. The first documented use of stimulates was reported to show the impact it had on those with hyperactivity. When used properly, there is no medication more effective than a stimulant when treating ADHD. Medications such as Adderall and Ritalin are prescribed to individuals suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. They help control the symptoms of ADHD but do not cure it. Even though it is evident that stimulants help, researchers are still unclear how they affect the disorder in its entirety. Meanwhile, students without ADHD are using stimulants as a study drug. In a 2006 study conducted by the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, researchers found that 34 percent of the undergraduate students who participated reported using ADHD stimulants illegally (Marbach, 2014). Although they may succeed in staying awake long enough to cram in long hours of study time, there is still no proof that stimulants affect non-disorder students in the same way that it would a student with
There are mostly blogs and chat forums that cater to the curiosity or needs of those searching for “brain boosting pills”. So, how are students getting a drug that isn’t prescribed to them? Easy, if they can’t get it from a doctor then it’s being sold to them by fellow students. Drug dealers come in all shapes and sizes. Coming up with ways to help eliminate the distribution of ADHD medications can and will help kids to stop self-medicating. Even liquidizing the medications and coming up with a way to make it an implant like the depo provera shot. This idea may be farfetched. However, ideas have to start from somewhere in order to manifest into something useful. Also, there should be some type of drug testing implemented during finals or when academic problems become noticeable. At any cost, this issue needs to be