Some call it ”Smart Pills”, others call it ”Study Drugs”, if you are an insider, you might just call it ”Addy” or ”your study buddy”. No matter what you call it, you still refer to the same thing; students using prescription drugs such as Ritalin or Adderall to enhance their focus and cognitive functions to work better, harder and faster. Previously performance-enhancing drugs have mostly been a problem among athletes, where a use of steroids has been problematic. Now it appears that more and more students in the academic arena are users of the drugs.
On July19, 2012, David Sack’s blog article about the phenomenon ”Study Drugs” was published in the American paper ”Huffington Post”. David Sack is board certified in psychiatry, addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine, he is currently working as the CEO of Elements Behavioural Health, and he has a regular blog in The Huffington Post. All of these things make him very credible, and they increase the pathos in his article. David Sack’s blog article ”Do ’Study Drugs’ Breed a Nation of Winners – or Cheaters?” is, as the title seems to reveal, about study drugs, how it affects the students, and last but not least, it is about why the students have turned to ”cognitive enhancers”, as David Sack calls it. According to Sack, ”Study Drugs” are only a result of the obsession of winning and of the huge competition it is for young students in America to get in to the best universities. ”Children are learning that success comes not by training, practice and hard work, but by taking shortcuts.”, Sack writes as another reason to why the ”Smart Pills” have become so popular. It is especially among college students the pills seem to be quite popular.
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