Reasons College Students Abuse
Consequences to Abuse
How Adderall Works
Abuse Statistics in Young Adults
Common Use and Abuse Myths
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This reason is summarized by the fact that many of our peers have prescrptions and therefore, many pills to distribute.
What is easy access?
100
Increased norepinephrine signaling from Adderall use leads to this consequence in the user.
What is increased focus and attention?
100
Because it can increase blood pressure and heart rate, Adderall can be considered this.
What is a stimulant drug?
100
11% of this gender population at Ohio State in 2009 used or abused Adderall.
What is male?
100
Many believe that Adderall use is this, which is why few worry about their use and abuse. This myth is false.
What is a safe drug?
200
The night before a final exam, a student might find Adderall helpful for this reason.
What is staying awake to study harder and retain more information?
200
Increased dopamine signaling from Adderall use leads to this feeling in the user.
What is euphoria?
200
The two neurotransmitters that are affected by Adderall.
What is dopamine and norepinephrine?
200
6% of this gender population at Ohio State in 2009 used or abused Adderall.
What is female?
200
Only adult members of this socioeconomic status use or abuse Adderall. This myth is true.
What is high socioeconomic status?
300
A typically-weekend activity can be "prolonged" by taking Adderall for this reason.
What is partying?
300
Blood vessel constriction as a result of Adderall use causes this consequence.
What is increased blood pressure?
300
This amphetamine acts as what to the affected neurotransmitter transporters?
What is a competetive substrate?
300
Full-time college students age 18-22 are this many times as likely to abuse Adderall as those part time students or those not enrolled in college at all in the same age group.
What is twice as likely?
300
Those who abuse Adderall get the prescription in this manner/through this type of person. This is a true myth.
What is a friend or acquaintance?
400
Since Adderall is a stimulant drug, its cellular and nueronal responses can decrease one natural urge regulated by the hypothalamus, causing this. Females could stereotypically rationalize this reason.
What is weight loss?
400
An increase in heart muscle contractions from Adderall use causes this consequence.
What is increased heart rate?
400
Vesicles uptake more of what, rather than the neurotransmitters, once the drug has been taken?
What is more Adderall/amphetamine?
400
This is the perceived risk level college students have towards Adderall use and abuse.
What is low perceived risk?
400
Using Adderall will allow the collegiate user to retain more of this and perform better in immediate academic testings. This myth is true.
What is information and facts?
500
If making a long drive home for a weekend and the collegiate is tired, he might take Adderall for this reason (although this is just one example for this reason).
What is staying awake and alert for a given task at hand?
500
Increased blood pressure and vasoconstriction cause serious damage to this organ, which can be a lethal consequence of Addreall use.
What is the brain?
500
The increased efflux of dopamine and norepinephrine cause an increase in this.
What is extracellular levels of dopamine and norepinephrine AND an signaling of receptors?
500
68% of 2004 emergency room visits related to amphetamine use (such as Adderall) also involved this/these.
What is other substances, such as alcohol, caffeine, or other illicit drugs?
500
Long-term and prolonged Adderall abuse, just like other stimulant abuse, could ulitamately lead to this, a very serious side effect. This myth is true.
What is death?