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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.

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