The New Yorker Knows You're On Adderall
April 20, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Today in alarmist national media attention, the prestigious New Yorker takes great lengths to details your neuroenhancer habit.
The BoredAt Web sites—which allow college students to chat idly while they’re ostensibly studying—are filled with messages about Adderall. Posts like these, from the BoredAtPenn site, are typical: “I have some Adderall—I’m sitting by room 101.10 in a grey shirt and headphones”; “I have Adderall for sale 20mg for $15”; “I took Adderall at 8 p.m., it’s 6:30 a.m. and I’ve barely blinked.”When Street covered this topic a whole year and a half ago, we quoted the selfsame message boards! We also learned to spot the profile of a typical Adderral user:
White male undergraduates at highly competitive schools—especially in the Northeast—are the most frequent collegiate users of neuroenhancers. Users are also more likely to belong to a fraternity or a sorority, and to have a G.P.A. of 3.0 or lower. They are ten times as likely to report that they have smoked marijuana in the past year, and twenty times as likely to say that they have used cocaine. In other words, they are decent students at schools where, to be a great student, you have to give up a lot more partying than they’re willing to give up.UTB isn't fully convinced that Adderall actually works, i.e. allows you to get more work done, but we do know this: it's dangerous and you should probably get some sleep.