Lucky for your friends, they've got you to ask their deepest, darkest questions for them. And lucky for you, we started this new column to answer those most embarrassing of queries. Yet when he finds his mind too frequently wandering away from office spreadsheets and into the dark abyss of Reddit, he busts out his amateur street pharmacist skills and acquires some meds to "help him focus" and "get more shit done.
The hope: Popping a legal, physician-prescribed, FDA-approved pill in the name of productivity is basically, like, an applause-worthy form of workplace initiative. Adderall is a drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD as well as sleep disorders such as narcolepsy.
Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin work to compensate for deficits, not increase performance, says Eugene Arnold, a professor of psychopharmacology at the Ohio State University.
Someone with ADHD tends to have a very inactive prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain that controls things like attention span. Maybe, but that might be in his head. What is a complex learning task? It's not something like remembering that Kelly in accounting is a vegan, but rather things like coming up with a business strategy or knowing how to persuade a finicky client—and stimulants don't do much in that department.
A study that came out earlier this summer from Massachusetts General Hospital found that students who misuse prescription stimulants are more likely to have ADHD than students who don't. But side note: 20 percent of this group also had both a drug and alcohol abuse problem. Researchers think people who pop stimulants when they are not supposed to might be prone to misusing other things as well. So, there does exist a sliver of possibility that you'll have to STFU because your friend has successfully self-diagnosed and is part of the 4 percent of Americans who have ADHD.
But figuring that out would require him to confirm that with a real doctor, who would run a bunch of tests to make sure. Instead, you may have to wait out the symptoms, which can last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks.
Maintaining a regular routine can help with the withdrawal. Stimulants can make your blood vessels constrict, raise your blood pressure, and make your heart beat faster. In some cases, Adderall can cause further interference with your blood circulation. Your toes and fingers may become numb, or start to hurt. They may even turn blue or red. Serious side effects of Adderall include heart attack and stroke.
Contact your doctor immediately if you experience chest pain , shortness of breath , difficulty breathing, or fainting. Adderall can lead to sudden death in people with preexisting heart conditions.
Taking Adderall alongside alcohol increases your chances of having heart problems. Adderall may also affect how drunk you feel, which can also increase your chance of alcohol poisoning.
Loss of appetite and weight loss are also possible, which can slow down weight gain in growing children who take the medication. Weight loss in adults is a temporary side effect, and appetite should increase as your body adjusts to the medication. Some people experience allergic reactions, which can cause the skin to itch. Taking Adderall may also result in:. Adderall is a powerful medication. Learn how to cope…. Mixing Adderall with alcohol is a dangerous practice.
Find out how the combination can influence behavior and health and lead to alcohol poisoning. Weight loss can be a side effect of Adderall use. A cup of coffee can have a calming effect on a person with ADD. The reason that children with the condition were given Ritalin is so they could maintain some realm of control in a classroom setting, follow instructions from parents and better refrain from outbursts.
Adults who have ADHD show low levels of dopamine receptors in specific areas of the brain. Adderall is prescribed to help restore the balance. But for adults who have no imbalance no ADD the damage from taking these substances is very real.
Pun intended. With more interviews conducted for the project, participants were classified in two different groups: adults began using the medication before the age of 18 and those who started use as adults. Our world is full of distractions. Some self-imposed by technological advances and other by our choice in succumbing to their promise of convenience.
As a result, people are slaves to the technology. While we refer to them as smart devices, over time, they are proving to dumb down our ability to turn off to distractions and just be in the moment. Moreover, the quest to multitask without mistakes has paved the way for our current need to focus and produce faster and flawlessly, more than ever before.
Otherwise healthy adults and students competing against their peers are drawn to Vyvanse, Ritalin and Adderall because they are known as high performance drugs. So they take them, hoping they deliver on the promise of helping them become more-better-faster than they ever thought possible.
Performance pill poppers praise the effects of Adderall in corporate America. They swear that their work is solid and they seem to get through more of it in a shorter amount of time. Enhanced concentration, attention-to-detail and increased energy are some of the descriptions given from adults who use these drugs with no medical reason to back their dependency for them.
This is the cycle of Adderall addiction. Users notice that the short-term benefits of the drug diminish quickly, unless they take in more. And more. As the interviews from the documentary about Adderall abuse got into deeper discussion, respondents shared their stories.
Although they wanted so desperately to outperform others and reach better realities in themselves, it became apparent that with their addiction, a stronger sense of self-doubt is what consistently emerged.
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