In somewhat disquieting news, an extended-release ADHD medication called Adzenys has hit the market, making amphetamines even more tempting than they already are by delivering the drug in chewable, candy-flavored form. This should go well!
If you're a college student who uses a little pharmaceutical kick to get through finals or long nights of studying, I might have some bad news. Senator Chuck Schumer is coming for your Adderall.
Doctors are prescribing prescription pills like Adderall to low-income kids even if they don't "need" drugs to function because it's often the only realistic way to help them do well in school.
Hey, Harvard undergrads: Want to know how to increase your energy, mental focus and concentration? No, not by posting "any1 have addies?!?!" on Craigslist. The Harvard Crimson, Harvard's student newspaper, is running advertisements for AddTabz, the "Adderall Alternative," on its website.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
This week's multimedia compilation of pop culture crap features Adderall, Levi Johnston, and Fox News "liberalism."
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…
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…
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…
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!
Think it's society's sharpening emphasis on your superficialest qualities? Or your dumb minimum wage job's? Could it be PMS and the related phenomenon that is…
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…
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…
