Last term, during Dead Week, a friend of mine had an exceptional amount of work to do. A paper due for this class, a project for that class, work until 10 p.m. – one night he realized it was physically impossible to finish everything he was supposed to.
So, he took Adderall – something he’d never [...]
One consequence of reading Margaret Talbot’s New Yorker piece on neuro-enhancing drugs is that it made we want some.
(Indeed, the piece itself had a nice way of pulling this off, since my attention span is so addled by the Internet that it took me about three sittings to finish it.)
But in addition to all sorts [...]
One in ten Cambridge University students have admitted to taking drugs to help them study.
A survey conducted by Varsity revealed that students have been using non-prescription drugs to improve their concentration and alertness.
A third-year student who started using a concentration-enhancing drug several weeks ago said: “Modafinil has undoubtedly aided my concentration.”
Since then she has been [...]
OK so its not related to provigil/Modafinil/Modalert, but pain-killer abuse is killing hundreds of teenagers every single year and the daddy of them all is Oxycontin, an opioid based pain-killer manufactured by Purdue Pharma. As a result I believe it deserves its place here on our website.
According to statistics there are around 15 million Americans [...]