Posted on 06/16/2013 2:20:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Studies Indicate Up To 35% Of College Students Use ADHD Drugs As Study Aids
New York’s senior senator wants colleges to come back from summer break with a plan on how to deal with abuse of prescription ADHD pills.
Sen. Charles Schumer, speaking from his Midtown office on Sunday, said up to 35 percent of all college kids report using stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin as a study tool.
“That’s sort of academic doping,” said Schumer. “There are better ways to pull an all-nighter and stay up. There’s coffee, there’s things like NoDoz.”
play Sen. Schumer Seeks Crackdown On 'Academic Doping'WCBS 880's Alex Silverman Reports 00:00 Schumer said it must be on the colleges to crack down on this rampant drug abuse. He has urged colleges to implement new standard for diagnosing and monitoring students seeking Adderall or other stimulants.
“For somebody to call up and say ‘well, my doctor prescribed it at home, send me pills, here’s the prescription number…’ that’s not good enough,” said Schumer. “If a student gets 100 or 200 Adderall pills, even if they are legitimately entitled, they may lend a bunch to their friends.”
He said campus health centers should do a full workup and gather a history. If they are unable to, Schumer said school health centers should not be diagnosing or prescribing the ADHD drugs at all.
“We want SUNY and our private colleges to start being careful when it comes to these drugs,” said the senator.
Schumer pointed to a number of studies that estimate between 15 percent and 35 percent of college students nationwide take these drugs illicitly as a study tool.
He said the amphetamine-based drugs have a number of side effects, including depression, anxiety and even psychosis.
Schumer proposed the following policy changes:
For students diagnosed at a campus health clinic:
- Require formal contracts and follow-up diagnostics for that student.
- Require detailed medical, educational, and psychological history.
For students diagnosed outside of campus health clinic, and seeking to refill prescription:
- Require mental health evaluations with qualified health practitioner to verify diagnoses
- Require parent, guardian verification of diagnoses
Schumer also recommended offering short-term counseling, time management and procrastination workshops, and medication consultation to students with a prescription; instituting a program during freshman orientation informing students of the potential side-effects of stimulant abuse and its addictive nature and offering a list of community mental health professionals that can aid students in seeking the medication.
See how that works?
It’s not the university’s responsibility or right to do anything about what the student does beyond paying his tuition.
I’ve seen this before with students discussing using certain ADD pills. They claim that it gives them extreme focus on their particular topic. Though, it seems awfully stupid to be taking medications that you don’t actually need.
So Schummer prefers they buy their speed off the streets.
Chucky Schumer ......... New York’s answer to stupid
I wonder what percentage of HOR and Senate members are coked up. Better than that average I'll bet.
Aside from anything else, this is not a federal problem. It’s a state problem.
So what do we conclude when states give up autonomy for federal money? That too many people are magical thinkers who have the notion that if I send a dollar to Washington, it will be ten dollars when they return it.
But more than that, we can also see that the Congressswine WANT more power. They don’t WANT the states to be free. Instead of saying, “Here’s your money, get out of my face,” they say, “We’ll give you money and we get to say what you do.”
Schumer would be a better Senator is he stuck to his knitting. But he would have to forgo jerking people around.
Get rid of Academic Doping? Does that mean he’d get rid of mind-numbed teachers? The ones who teach anti-American stuff?
I’d rather see a crackdown on political dopes.
Modern human males load disproportionate levels of intracellular iron into the hippo campus that interferes with the uptake of glucose for cognition/working memory and amino acids for protein synthesis. This iron loading/declining working memory explains the gender performance difference in woman in college acceptances and class rankings and graduation. Simply stated, the young men are higher performers in 10th grade metrics but are losing the advantage at a significant rate while they progress into the ADD pathology in their college careers. These male college students are legitimately prescribed adderal in order to barely survive in college.
This coming from the same bass turds indiscriminately handing out morning-after pills to anyone who can clasp a fist around them...
The best way, imo, is to get rid of the college system altogether. In the college system, it’s naturally geared towards getting people to do what is necessary for good marks but doesnt guarantee that students really master the material.
It would be far better to bring back the guilds, where you have to qualify yourself through years of experience and have to write an extensive exam that does not lend oneself to cramming for it.
With the scandals of the IRS targetting the political opposition, the NSA creating a large encyclopedia of every citizen's communications, the purposed tragedy in Benghazi, and the FBI tracking journalists, the best Schumer can come up with is COLLEGE KIDS TAKING RITALIN???!?
Has there ever been a more useless pol than Schumer???
Require, require, require, make a history, form a
data base, get permission, take notes.
“Why can’t they just abuse caffene and nodoze like
we do?”, said Schumer shakely.
What a country! There are so few real problems to solve that our elected leaders can focus on stuff like this!
The politicians don't want to focus on the "few real problems" because...they created most of them.
How many stupid people do you know who got perfect scores on their SAT exams?
Schumer did. He is not stupid; he's evil. He revels in it.
I despise Schumer for almost everything he says, does and represents. He is right in that the misuse of ADHD drugs constitutes an extreme problem. I've seen the effects of Adderall abuse. It is extremely addictive, destructive and one of the harder substances to rehab from.
I would favor it being taken off the market altogether.
Anything Schumer and the government do will take a bad situation and make it a disaster. They will pat themselves on the back and use it as a campaign talking point.
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