The truth about ADHD drugs; They don’t make kids smarter or better students. They just make them drug addicts.

University of Texas Health Science Center doctoral student Joshua Gowin describes the effects of Adderall and Ritalin to the drugs’ primary receivers. The act of taking these habit-forming drugs probably dispels any attempt at being smart anyway. It turns out that Adderall users are those who need to cram in a few extra hours of study time because they did not plan ahead to begin with.

TestCountry.com
October 5, 2009

The use of performance-enhancing drugs of an “academic” kind, such as Adderall and Ritalin, is a hot topic nowadays, especially since the fall term has just begun and students across various college campuses and universities are hitting the books once again. We have done a number of posts on this issue, and we continue to read about these drugs and their uses and effects. In doing so we came across a rather interesting feature  by University of Texas Health Science Center doctoral student Joshua Gowin on Psychology Today.

In the feature, Gowin describes the effects of Adderall and Ritalin to the drugs’ primary receivers: people suffering from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

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