Adderall news stories on Newser

Sorry Kids, Adderall Only Makes You Think You're Smarter

Kevin Spak — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:15:05 CST

Bad news, overachievers: taking so-called “smart pills” like Adderall and Ritalin to improve your mental performance probably doesn’t actually work. It’s a trend that’s been sweeping through colleges, and even the ranks of adult professionals, but scientists are having trouble finding brain-boosting effects of the drug in studies, the Daily...

Defense: Booze, Adderall Led to Yeardley Love's Death

Polly Davis Doig — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:55:05 CST

George Huguely admits drunkenly breaking down Yeardley Love's door. He admits shaking her while her head hit the wall several times. That blood was flowing from her nose as he threw her on her bed and left. But what killed Love was likely the Adderall in her system and 0....

Cops Crack $1 Million Craigslist Drug Ring

Emily Rauhala — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:45:42 CDT

The list of Craigslist crimes keeps growing. Police have now busted a $1million dollar drug ring operating through the site. The group allegedly shipped drugs like Vicodin and Adderall from California to Brooklyn where web-savvy wholesalers pawned the pharm off to neighborhood yuppies, reports the New York Daily News . The...

More Students Get Fix From Study Drugs

Matt Cantor — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:20:03 CST

Attention-deficit disorder drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin are gaining popularity on college campuses as an easy way for students to knuckle down, NPR reports. The drugs offer a “perfect kind of transition into a study mentality,” says one student, and can make work more pleasurable. But they’re “serious drugs...

Legal or Not, Bottled Smarts Are Here to Stay

Ambreen Ali — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:52:00 CST

The case is stacking up in favor of "smart pills," memory- and alertness-boosting prescription drugs already used by fighter pilots, corporate execs, and students for a cognitive edge, writes Maia Szalavitz in Time . Proponents say legalization debates are moot at this point—"the genie is already out of the bottle,...

Legalize Ritalin-Like Drugs as Brain Boosters: Experts

Victoria Floethe — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:27:37 CST

Attention-disorder drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall are becoming so commonly used for the off-label purpose of gaining a mental edge that they should be legalized for such use, says a team of neuroscientists and ethicists. They make their case in Nature , arguing that laws "should be adjusted to avoid...

Number of Baseball Players Taking ADD Drugs Spikes

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:00:00 CST

Since baseball's 2006 ban on amphetamines, the number of players claiming to have Attention Deficit Disorder and obtaining prescriptions for stimulant drugs has nearly quadrupled from 28 to 103, reports the Associated Press. The MLB anti-performance enhancing policy gives the players exemptions on certain drugs, including Ritalin and Adderall, if...

Who Knew a Prius Was a Hot Rod?

Wesley Oliver — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:14:39 CDT

As the exhaust clears following Al Gore III's joy-ride drug bust, an astonished public has zeroed in, not on the former veep's son, but on his little-Prius-that-could. Clocked at over 100mph before he was pulled over, Gore shattered the assumption that the Toyota hybrid sacrifices speed for fuel efficiency, the...

Al Gore III Returns to Rehab

Caroline Zimmerman — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:05:52 CDT

Al Gore III has posted bail and returned to rehab. A day after the ex-VP's son was busted for drugs, the 24-year-old magazine publisher "is getting treatment," his father said today. In his first public reaction, he appeared on the "Today" show and said, "We love him very much," adding,...