Jezebel: Adderall

Science Gives Go-Ahead To Take As Much Adderall As You Want

Anna North — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:50:00 EST

Well, sort of. Despite earlier concerns that stimulants taken for ADHD could cause heart problems, a new study has found that the drugs don't increase takers' risk of heart attack or stroke. The sound you hear is thousands of sleep-deprived college students applauding. More »

You Have ADD

Erin Gloria Ryan — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:55:00 EST

Those stumbling, disorganized, dissheveled, late to everything America's sweethearts charming their way through every romantic comedy ever might actually be sick: according to one psychologist, adult women with difficulty managing their lives may be suffering from undiagnosed ADD. And if you, like Sandra Bullock circa While You Were Sleeping, have problems filling out paperwork, keeping your living space clean, and managing your finances, you might have it, too. Someone get you and Ginnifer Goodwin some Addreall, stat! More »

Sisters Bond In Adderall Scheme

Irin Carmon — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:50:00 EST

Warning: Should you ever become embroiled in a criminal conspiracy, your silliest Facebook photo will be posted on The Smoking Gun. That's what just happened to Pauline Wiltshire, recently arrested in an Adderall scheme that seems to implicate her sister. More »

Defense Claims Adderall, Not Beating, Killed Yeardley Love

Anna North — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:35:00 EST

University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love died after her boyfriend attacked her — that's no longer in dispute. But now the defense is claiming the real cause of death was her Adderall prescription. More »

Can Lindsay's Problems Be Blamed On A Single Prescription Drug?

Anna North — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:31:00 EDT

Doctors apparently claim Lindsay Lohan isn't really an addict — she was just driven crazy by Adderall. And the thing is, it could actually be true. More »

10 Things You May Have Missed On TV This Week

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:00:00 EDT

This week's multimedia compilation of pop culture crap features Adderall, Levi Johnston, and Fox News "liberalism." More »

Who's Sabotaging Your Relationships? It Could Be Darwin, But You're Probably Too Distracted To Care

Moe — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:30:00 EDT

It's been awhile since I talked about my attention deficit disorder, maybe because the topic overwhelms me and the meds don't work like they used to, and I have a side of me — the side that thinks I could be "bipolar" too — that thinks ADHD is a scam cooked up by Big Pharma to sell decongestants that had been ruled unsafe as weight loss drugs, because it totally was, and yet on the really bad days it's kind of nice to think, no, I spent nine hours a night on my fifth-grade homework and dropped out of school and I lose everything — seriously, the other day on the way to getting reamed out by the Passport agency for having lost nine still-valid passports I managed to lose my three-week-old phone — because I am sick. I have a disease, a disease so hysterically crippling to my efforts to survive in society it's a wonder I made it past natural selection…Well, guess what? More »

Right Now Is About When I Shoot People Who Tell Me They're Worried About Their "Caffeine Addictions"

Moe — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EDT

You know what I fucking hate? (And yeah this is tangentially related to a substantive news report regarding the topic that you can read if you like to, you know, learn facts.) Moving on I hate people who tell me they're trying to cut back on caffeine. People who will stand around being all drowsy and shit because they're trying to detox from coffee. Seriously, fuck those people. They always make a big deal out of it because, duh, people who haven't had their coffee have a lot to make excuses about, but like, you seriously expect my empathy? You expect my empathy and caffeine is your addiction? Sure, Starbucks with its 400 milligram Ventis has hooked unprecedented numbers of Americans on unprecedented quantities of caffeine. And LOOK AT THE SOCIETAL CONSEQUENCES! Like how America suddenly has a burgeoning employment sector that doesn't consist of "taking care of sick people"!! Because, guess what, coffee doesn't do anything especially bad! It actually turns out to prevent skin cancer and certain autoimmune disorders and shooting yourself in the temple just to put an end to the misery of having to get out of bed every 24 hours! More »

You Thought Your Life Was Purgatory...

Moe — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:30:00 EDT

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Sure, a hangover will put a damper on blogging, but I shut my eyes real hard right now and thought about how thankful I was for a few things, namely, that I am not an American Airlines customer sales representative. [Wash Post]

The way a five-year-old acts, at five, does...

Moe — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:45:00 EST

The way a five-year-old acts, at five, does not turn out to dictate the way he acts in adulthood! That's according to the latest shocking new study, the results of which are actually so intuitive and "duh"-inspiring that everyone is feeling compelled to frantically email it to their friends and neighbors. The study mostly covers kindergarteners diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, I think, though I was too distracted to read it all the way through, and the upshot is that they are apparently no more likely to perform poorly in reading comprehension tests than normal, balanced kids later on in school. As someone who pretty much got lost every single time I went to the bathroom in kindergarten on account of (undiagnosed, but very very real) ADHD, the world gets a lot less aaah-overwhelming when you can sit in a corner and devote your full attention to r-e-a-d-i-n-g the text on a six-by-eight inch page. So yes, that part makes sense. But here's the scary part: Of the kids with ADHD they study, 80% of them are on stimulant drugs. Guys, really, save the amphetamines for later on in life, when your livelihood is at stake, maybe? [NY Times] More »

Women Less Happy Than Men About Performing Every Single One Of Those Multi Tasks

Moe — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:30:05 EDT

Guess what? At any given time, during any given moment, you're probably not as happy as most dudes you know. And you're less happy than girls in the seventies! More »

Women: Fuck. Multitasking. Already.

Moe — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:56:13 EDT

Hey! What are you doing right now? Nothing? Everything? Writing an email? Running your tongue over your teeth and wondering if your gums are receding? You should probably call a dentist! But remember the last time you were at the dentist? When they just said you'd have to return to the dentist? Shit! Maybe you should call your mother! She certainly thinks that should be more of a priority! And she's right! But maybe you should finish that post you were just writing first! Maybe you should finish writing that email you were writing on your Blackberry, only on your laptop this time? Maybe you should call your bank and see about getting those overdraft fees waived, and call a doctor about the weird patch of burst blood vessels on your thigh — did the laptop do that? Should you buy your dad a Father's Day present, or oh shit that wedding present, but WHY does your little IM icon keep bouncing I WONDER WHO IT IS (NOT)... And you volunteered to see about movie times, even though movies are just an excuse to aimlessly click through old emails in a cool, quiet place.. but wait a second here's another article on multitasking, and how women are sooooo good at it, and how they think it's SUCH an asset in their ability to handle the demanding modern workplace, and to that we would just like to say, excuse me but NO IT IS NOT!!! "Multitasking" is actually more like being called "curvy." More »

Taking Adderall Makes Me Hump Like A Guy

Moe — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:08:50 EDT

The pharmaceutical industry is sort of like women's magazines: Staffed by blandly attractive people determined to make you feel bad about yourself, and brimming with new ways to kill your libido. But wait! Pillhead may have found the elusive pink Viagra! In her second installment, Jezebel's resident pharmaceutical expert takes a break from the body obsession to have sex like RIGHT NOW. The crucial ingredient? Amphetamine salts... better known as Adderall. There are all sorts of reasons to take Adderall, from its appetite curbage (its original marketed use, when it was called Obetrol and Andy Warhol used to pop them like, well like we pop Adderall today!) to the whole "serenity" thing, to the fact that it turns some people into geniuses (though not so much others). But enough already, let's get down to business! And you know what we mean by business.