The pill makes good company on those days or nights when deadlines loom. Drowsiness and distractions evaporate. Focus sharpens. Attention span stretches. A boring text takes on the gleam of a riveting page-turner.
This is from students who, without a prescription, have popped Adderall or Ritalin, or another medication used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
One fourth-year Engineering student, who requested anonymity, said he first took a friend's Adderall February of his first year, just when the work load picked up and everything was due at the same time.
He asked his friend a couple questions
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