Students who abuse Adderall | ADHD Information

My daughter goes off to college next year and is a little nervous about people knowing she takes meds for adhd. She already said she does not care if they know about the adhd but she is not telling anyone she takes meds for it. She does not want to be bothered by people who want some and people who may steal them. Yeah people always cheat but in the long run it may cathch up with them. They may neeed it some day and won't be able to get it and where will they be then. You can get the last laugh then.There are always going to people who cheat and abuse systems to get an edge or get ahead of everyone else. Not just by abusing Adderall. Try not to get too get too hung up on the unfairness of life, it's not worth it. Not everyone is a good person. You cant change others only do the right thing yourself. You are doing what you were meant to do, don't think about what you cant do or couldnt do. Feeling frustrated by it is normal, but try not to get too upset about it.It really sucks when people find out you are prescribed adderall....people ask you for it non stop like "dude i need to study for a test let me get a pill man this class is hard!" HA! They don't understand how tough every class is to us... these idiots are ruining it for the people who need it...

i've had cases where i'd have people over and notice a few missing...that really made me angry stealing from friends is just messed up and even more messed up when its their medication.

I get really frustrated and depressed with college students abusing Adderall to "get that extra edge". One of my roommates is a med student and today she was talking about how one of her friends, who is also a med student, took a bunch of Adderall pills to study for some tests. Naturally, I got pissed off but I didn't disclose my own condition. I just told her that abusing Adderall is unfair for ADHD sufferers who need medication to function normally. She basically said it' a personal choice and people who don't have ADHD should be allowed to make the choice to take it.

What a spoiled, luxury-minded brat! She should be grateful that she got into med school in the first place! Does he know how many ADHD sufferers would kill to have a properly functioning brain??? My childhood dream was to go to med school and become a doctor but I was never properly diagnosed so I never had a chance to try the med school thing. My grades were too poor.

The meds are supposed to put me on an even playing field with everyone else but that's not going to happen when the "normal" people are using Adderall too! With meds, I am "normal focused" but when "normal people" are on meds, they seem to be "superfocused". No matter how hard I try and how well my medication works for me, I'm ALWAYS going to be a step behind everyone else. *sigh* It's so unfair. Maybe I just need to accept that I'm never going to be as good as everyone else. Does anyone else feel frustrated about non-ADHDers abusing stimulant meds?

I'm not sure how you can medically document the subjective experience of being 'high'. But methylphenidate affects the brain in a similar manner as cocaine... but yeah ingesting it is different than snorting it.. i would crush up Ritalin and snort it sometimes actually.. i did it a couple times.. now that i think back it would make me all hyperfocused and I would write bizarre stories and stuff... stimulants more often than not make me hyperfocus... which is good if i actually focus on what i'm supposed to.. like homework... but half the time i just end up surfing the net for hours.. that's why i mainly just take wellbutrin.. but i'll take ritalin or dexedrine for tests and stuff..

anyway that was a tangent.. so yeah my point was that I think it could be possible to get high off ritalin.. now that I think back to it, I don't know if I was 'high', but i'm pretty sure my friend (who is not ADHD) got a little buzz of it. I would get a really bad rebound effect.. I would be really sketchy, irritable, and restless as it wore off.. but my friend was fine. Now I know that it was the ADHD coming back.

I think in general there isn't a huge abuse potential because it doesn't make you euphoric or anything... but there is definitely and increased sense of wellbeing, especially if you take higher doses.. it ends up feeling similar to ecstasy or coke but just milder and of shorter duration.

Funny enough.. near the end of the 2 months that i was taking it.. i would just take half pills every now and then.. probably about 2 a day.. or sometimes i would take 2 whole pills and one night time drixoral (cold pill) everyday... and i found that this was a perfect combination... and it would make me feel relaxed.. by the end I wasn't just taking it for dieting... i was just taking it because it just made me feel good.. and not in a high sense.. but in a calmer sense. But the rebound effects of the ritalin were making me depressed and I thought i was going nuts so I stopped taking it.. actually i think i sold the remainder to another student.

Even now I only take half pills when I take Ritalin to minimize that rebound feeling. Me and my friends used to abuse Ritalin in high school..(a friend had some that he had stopped taking so he gave it to us) We didn't use it for studying though.. I never cared about my grades in high school..We used it for dieting and to get high. I took it for a month or two and then when I got used to it and was able to eat while taking it I stopped.. also it was making me depressed. I also took pseudoephedrine for the same reason..

Then later in college and university I took pseudoephdrine to help me study .. (Obviously I didn't have access to illegal Ritalin anymore).

I always wished I knew someone with ADHD so that they could give me their meds so I could have that extra edge.. but I never knew anyone.. so I just kept using Sudafed or Claritin and copious amounts of coffee.

I never had study any skills/strategies/routines and I never did that well in school as a kid.. plus I dropped out of university a couple times.. so I never thought I was cheating.. because I felt I was at a disadvantage due to my unstable childhood and my background of under achievement..

..turns out my disadvantage was a little more than my just my unstable past

..because 9 months ago I was diagnosed with ADHD...

..now I don't have to self medicate with Claritin anymore because I have a medicine cabinet filled with Ritalin, Conerta, Wellbutrin, and Dexedrine..

Sympathomietic,

Interesting. There is absolutely no medical documentation that ritalin can make you 'high' by injesting it. Yes, it can help you focus, but that is not high. Unless you were mainlining it ,you didn't get high. ...unless psychosomatically.