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There’s a new fix-it for the perpetual problem of low-income children’s poor performance in school: giving them Adderall, regardless of whether or not they’ve been diagnosed with A.D.D. or A.D.H.D. Apparently some doctors, including Dr. Micheal Anderson of Georgia, are prescribing Adderall and other stimulants to elementary and middle school students—in order to boost academic performance in struggling low-income schools. More
Man. Between doped-up NASCAR drivers, the New York Times and certain platinum blond bloggers, Adderall is getting a crazy bum rap these days. The latest anti-Adderall opus I’ve seen comes from an anonymous “Hollywood actress” writing on XOJane that elevates the ‘my-experience-is-self-evidently-universal’ genre to a whole new level. It needs to stop. More
It seems Adderall abuse is no longer the sole province of overachieving teenagers and the overachieving 20- and 30-somethings they grow into. The “study drug” (as the New York Times is so fond of calling it) is becoming a performance enhancer of choice for athletes, too. This week alone, two professional athletes — Cleveland Browns cornerback Joe Haden and NASCAR driver AJ Allmendinger — have come under fire for illegally using the ADHD med. More
