Last year, during finals week, a Georgetown student found himself simply overloaded with work and wearing out the energy from his usual caffeine fix.
So he made a choice familiar to a number of students at Georgetown. He went to meet a dealer a friend had referred him to, paid $30 and headed to Lauinger Library with two small pills in his pocket.
“I took one in the morning … and holed up in a cubicle all day until about midnight, only taking quick breaks for food,” the student, who wished to remain anonymous due to the illegal nature of this drug use, said. “It sounds kind of awful, but … I was able to write five pages of my research paper in about an hour.”
He said that the drug did not negatively affect the quality of his paper. Rather, he felt that his mental functioning was better off.
“Altogether that day I wrote 18 pages of my research paper, turned it in the next morning and ultimately got an A,” he said.
The two pills were Adderall, a prescription stimulant drug usually used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Under U.S. law, Adderall is classified a Schedule II drug; by taking it without a prescription, this student was risking prison time.
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