‘Study Drugs’ gaining college popularity
- Jan 26, 2016
- 1 min read
Later in the semester, you are likely to find college students scattered all over campus studying or even cramming for exams rather than being out having a grand old time. Sometimes, the workload can become overbearing and a quick fix to help get through it all becomes very tempting.
This opinion article was originally featured in PantherNOW and discusses the growing, dangerous popularity of study drugs among college students.
Check out the article’s excerpt below and click the link if you want to read the full story!
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Maytinee Kramer/Staff Writer
Later in the semester, you are likely to find college students scattered all over campus studying or even cramming for exams rather than being out having a grand old time. Sometimes, the workload can become overbearing and a quick fix to help get through it all becomes very tempting.
Some overworked and overloaded college students are pushing themselves to enhance their abilities through the use of amphetamine drugs dubbed ‘college crack’ or the ‘study drug.’ Amphetamines are a chemical compound class that stimulate the central nervous system and are most often used to promote focus in patients with ADHD. In most cases, while amphetamines also have the ability to ease narcoleptic tendency and treat obesity, they are being abused as a cognitive performance enhancer.
Amphetamines are well-known euphoriants, with benzene backbones that target the nervoussystem’s neural receptors in ways similar to methamphetamine, cocaine, and MDMA which is most commonly known as ecstasy.
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