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The Ritalin Generation Goes To College

One graduate student at New York University first tried it in the windowless office of her college newspaper. She was on the third day of no sleep and began snorting the white lines to get through the exhaustion. Another student tried it after receiving the pill as a birthday present from a friend. The gift helped her zip through the last paper of the semester without any distraction.

A cup of coffee is no longer the vice of choice for pulling an all-nighter. Even over-the-counter caffeine pills don’t cut it anymore.

Vitamin R, Bennies, Jollies: slang names for the drugs students are now using to help them outline one more chapter or polish off that last paper, without disrupting their social lives.

What are these drugs? Medications meant to focus the over-active brain caused by attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). While intended for one use, drugs like Ritalin and Adderall are being abused by students faced with increasing constraints on their time.

Experts on student behavior are just beginning to catch up with the latest college trend.

"While much is known about the college study use of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana and other illicit drugs, we’ve not had a handle of the abuse of prescription drugs." says Dr. Henry Wechsler, professor in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The Need to Achieve?
The use of illicit substances on campus is no surprise. The widespread use of alcohol and marijuana among college-aged kids is well known and documented. And generally, students use these substances to help them relax and forget about their schoolwork. Those who take prescription stimulants, however, have a different goal in mind. They want to be able to sit down, focus and plow through their work.

Some students only turn to these drugs as a last resort, using them get through the worst part of the semester.

"I was writing my last paper for school one semester and having trouble concentrating." said one female student from New York University, who, like most of the students interviewed, wished to remain anonymous. "I decided to just take it, and about an hour and a half later, I was finished. It definitely worked."

Others use the drugs more frequently to help them stay up through the night.

"If I have an exam to study for, I can stay up the whole night and read all the chapters I need to. The next day, I don’t feel tired at all for the exam, even though I haven’t slept for over 24 hours." said Lauren, an undergraduate from Syracuse University who says she uses Adderall about four or five times a semester.

As more and more students come clean about their use of stimulant drugs for non-medical purposes, the picture of a typical user comes into focus.