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Comment by fhood | Hacker News Reader

"ADHD drugs have become the campus recreational drug of choice at parties"

Is there any well documented evidence for this? It certainly contradicts my personal observations.

ADHD drugs almost certainly means adderall which is pretty heavily abused as a recreational drug, especially on college campuses. It's relatively easy to acquire a prescription and it's an amphetamine.

Right but he/she asked for evidence, for which there is non that I'm aware of. Given that it's the Huffington Post, it's most likely a baseless claim.

http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2016/adderall-misuse...

Edit: good article about the subject in general https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/generation-adder...

Both of those articles are discussing the use of Adderall as a study aid, not a party drug. I think folks in this thread are objecting to its depiction as the latter specifically, not the fact that it is heavily used on college campuses in general.

> In college, especially, these drugs are used as study-aid medication to help students stay up all night and cram.

> My friend pulled two blue pills out of tinfoil and handed them to me. An hour later, I was in the basement of the library, hunkered down in the Absolute Quiet Room, in a state of peerless ecstasy.

At parties? I was under the impression that it's a performance enhancing drug popular in libraries.

Anecdotal but where I go to school (a top university) people often will drink then take adderall since it focuses you while you're drunk so you don't seem as drunk but can still have fun.

I highly doubt however that it's more popular then molly and I know it isn't as popular as weed, which is still the recreational drug of choice. This might be skewed as coming from a good university hard drugs aren't as popular as some other schools, but I think it's enough to debunk a baseless claim.

Ask Hacker News for what goes on at parties and you are going to get skewed results. Yes, people use this to party. But no, I don't think you are going to find a ton of a paper trail for this in journals.

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