Chicago researchers find college students who use prescription drugs illicitly are three times more likely to choose Adderall than Ritalin.
Northeastern University pharmacy professor Christian Teter says that the top motive for use is to increase concentration -- probably due to academic competitiveness, not to get high.
More than 75 percent of college students who reported using prescription stimulants illicitly last year chose amphetamine-dextroamphetamine products, like Adderall, over methylphenidate products, like Ritalin, according to the study published in the journal Pharmacotherapy.
The study randomly sampled 4,580 undergraduate college students from a large Midwestern university and assessed lifetime and past-year prevalence of prescription drugs.
"We also found that students who started illicitly using prescription stimulants during college were motivated primarily by a desire to improve concentration, possibly due to academic competitiveness," says Teter. "However, most pre-college initiators reported using it to get high, lose weight, and for experimentation."
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