College Students Who Abuse Adderall

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Literature Review

Various scholars have addressed the issue of abusing legal drugs like Adderall among the youths, especially to the college students to create awareness. They have tried to incorporate multiple ideas, explaining why college students still engage in abusing Adderall as well as the greater consequences that will face them if they fail to reform.

Alcabes (2016)

People’s increasing reliance on prescribed drugs like Adderall, illegal drugs, ones ordered online like pizza and purchased over-the-counter, reflects a greater problem within the society. The author believes that since in the past, people have been using certain anxiety medications to feel comfortable on multiple occasions. Speaking from the experience, the author says that he used to take a double dose of Valium or Librium to concentrate in the chemistry class. He believed that the medications helped him stay awake throughout the class. He also holds that his friends attended the class after ingesting themselves with a handful of downers and uppers. According to the author, nowadays, the War on Drugs has become rampant. Many drugs, including the latest sleep aids, serotonin-activating SSRIs as well as SNRIs for depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs have emerged.

Benson, et al. (2015)

The authors hold that the main problem regarding the abuse of Adderall is that individuals have become obsessed with the drugs to the extent of designing their prescription up to the level that fits their needs best. The urge to feel the effects of the drugs as soon as they use them has forced the users to abuse drugs without considering the results. The act of misusing stimulant medication among college elites is a growing as well as prevalent challenge. The authors have tried to back the ideas presented by Alcabes (2016, Pp. 20-33), but with an angle to finding the rates and demographics which correlate with abusing the drugs among the students. For instance, they reveal data indicating that 17 percent (95 percent CI [0.13, 0.23], p

Wilens, et al. (2008)

The authors also continue to say that various other psychological variables that categorized both non-users and misusers were identifiable. For instance, the marijuana use, issues related to alcohol usage, and lastly the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. They are also certain that college students abuse drugs for the educational purposes. It is important to note that there are stiff competitions in colleges; hence students have to find ways of staying awake overnight to do further studies. Adderall, on the other hand, is readily available, hence the most efficient to serve that purpose.

Rabiner, et al. (2009)

The authors support the fact that the student’s primary motive of misusing stimulant medication like Adderall is to improve academic performance, but they fail to understand how the undergraduates who have ADHD perceive the entire issue. The authors also tend to wonder if the patients do consider the treatments adequate. In such case, nowadays, it is difficult to tell, whether or not someone has ADHD. Adderall is continuously losing its primary objectives, a situation that confuses many healthcare practitioners.

Kolar (2015)

The medicines for the sleep disorder are all over in the society, especially in the colleges. The author believes that there is increasing need to address the issue of stimulant medication before it goes out of hand. However, the primary challenge lies in identifying the effective policy for the task between the voluntary education, the public health response, and the supply side. The author also continues to discourage the misuse of prescribed stimulants through showing people their real effects. For instance, comparing the non-abusers of such drugs with the abusers, there is no wide difference regarding performance.

Herzberg, et al. (2016)

The issue of abusing Adderall has been criminalized, hence attached to certain people. The approach has thus made the fight against the act of abusing the drug difficult, especially because there are no unique angles by which healthcare givers can address the issue. Epidemics relating to pharmaceutical drugs have become rampant in America. The authors relate different situations of Adderall abuse since in the past. They are thus able to show the dangers that are likely to face many individuals if they will not shift to better practices other than abusing the drug.

DeSantis, et al. (2013)

Nevertheless, the authors did a research to identify the individual college students who have actual prescriptions for ADHD stimulants. While considering the extreme circulation of Adderall, the people, most likely to be distributing their medication to the non-prescribed students. In such case, as far as some students are eligible to the prescribed medication, controlling the abuse among youths remains a thorny issue. There is thus the need to approach such individuals and let them know the problems they are creating against the welfare of the entire society.

Jardin, Alison, & Mitch (2011)

Additionally, with the attempt to understand the rate at which the college students abuse their prescribed psychostimulant medications, the authors hold that college students with the symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, who also misuse Adderall, have certain characteristics. For instance, misusers of Adderall also report using multiple illicit substances like marijuana, nicotine, cocaine, opiates, and hallucinogens over the past few years. Other traits as per the authors include greater negative expectancies impacts; higher scores on sensation seeking measurement, and experiencing additional hyperactivity symptoms.

McCabe, et al. (2006)

The prevalence of illicit drug use continues to increase while their combinations with the use prescribed stimulants induce immense results to the individuals. Currently, it is hard to deal with the entire cases of Adderall abuse among college students. It is also evident that certain subgroups are at heightened risk if nothing will be done soon. Furthermore, the authors believe that experts can acquire competent results if they design preventative measures with the focus of the misuser’s traits mentioned above.

Hamilton (2009)

The act of avoiding precautions among