Why Do People Abuse/Become Dependent on Adderall?
Adderall has a very high potential for abuse. Patients who develop a tolerance to and dependency upon their medication may start to need to take higher dosages to achieve the same results. If they are not prescribed the higher dosages that they need, they may begin to self-medicate, abusing their medication and increasing the dosage of their own accord. The number of individuals who are not prescribed this medication but still use it illegally is staggering. Because of the euphoria caused by the release of the dopamine in a person with a normal brain, a certain high is produced when the medication is ingested, especially in higher dosages. It produces similar effects to the highly addictive street drug methamphetamine, and it also can be injected, insufflated, or smoked. Also, an incredibly large number of students–of various levels of education, but especially college students–use the drug to increase their focus, alertness, and productivity. Whereas it creates a normal level of foc
