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health
Giving Kids Speed: Perhaps, In Retrospect, a Bad Idea?
"And rather than saying the growth of children on medication was stunted, the release said children who were not on medication 'grew somewhat larger.'" Science! [WaPo]
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By PareeneComment by Mount_Prion: It was the Fruit Roll Ups that stunted my growth. 8 Responses | Other threads
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neurogossip
Has Adderall Jumped the Shark?
Nature magazine polled their readers on their use of "cognition-enhancing drugs," such as Adderall, that great booster of the chattering classes. Oh, let's just call them by their street names: Speed, people. Uppers. Bennies. Blues. Results of the poll? Readers are for them! Twenty percent have taken neuroenhancers like Ritalin, Adderall, or Provogil, seeing them as a perfectly acceptable way to focus and "stimulate concentration or memory." More proof that the modern world has shot our attention spans to hell. More » -
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The Reality Behind 'The Hills': Adderall Addicts And Cat Pee
It's really a shame that the storylines we see on The Hills aren't as "real" as MTV claims they are, since the blonde cast's off-screen lives seem far more colorful than what we see on the show. This season we've trudged through (yawn) yet another ongoing catfight between Heidi and Lauren, and barely kept our eyes open while slowest speaker in the world Whitney learns how to cope with a new job. But rumors surfacing today involving real-life catfights between Lauren and roomie Audrina, plus not-so-blind items suggesting the entire cast is fed drugs by producers, make us wish this "unscripted" drama would throw out the scripts already. More » -
cognitive enhancers
One Novelist's Drug Cocktail
We already know that half of Manhattan abuses Adderall, but what does an ex-addict novelist need to get writing in the morning? According to an Esquire interview with James Brown, author of Los Angeles Diaries: a lot. Writers, take note! Among other things, we learn about antidepressant Wellbutrin's pleasing stimulant qualities, especially whenn combined with something called "No-Explode..." More » -
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Speed Not As Novel As Believed
Why does Diane Keaton have to kill our trend story? Adderall was looking good as the pill of choice of a new creative generation. And then the 62-year-old actress, who made her name opposite Woody Allen in moves such as Manhattan, spoils it all. On the Letterman show, on CBS, on Friday, she was reminiscing about the debut of her acting career, as part of the original cast of the musical, Hair, in 1968. Keaton, who was supposed to be promoting her new movie, Mad Money, blurted out that forty years ago she and her fellow actors received injections of a methamphetamine drug, much like Adderall. And we so hoped there was something new in the creative pharmacopeia. (In another of Allen's movies in which Keaton starred, Sleeper, at least the future had some medical advances, such as the orgasmatron.) After the jump, the clip from the Letterman show. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by MyCubeHas3Sides: As they say: "what was old is new again." Yesterday's MethA = today's Adderal. more » | Other threads
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faqs
Five Things You Didn't Know About Adderall
Yesterday there was an in-comments FAQ with our Adderall Adviser, Alex Geana (commenter AlexWriterly). He's writing a book about the pharmaceutical-grade amphetamine! What did we learn? Well, mostly that Gawker readers are all pill-popping menaces. Though, it's unclear how much we really needed that reiterated. Either way, after the jump you'll find a list of Five Things You Didn't Know About Adderall. More »
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Comment by CaptainFantastic: @misssgolightly: Oh, I take 4, but they're not Advil, they're generic ibuprofen. Wanna go get a coffee? more » | Other threads
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faqs
The Adderall Advisor
So it happens that one of last week's tipsters, Alex Geana, is writing a collection of short stories and poetry on pill-popping culture. (I'm sure many books have been written on Adderall.) In exchange for a promotional link, he's agreed to answer the questions you've been dying to ask about that pharmaceutical-grade amphetamine. How do I get a prescription? Will it make me creative? Will it make my teeth fall out? Where do I get it? Your questions, and Alex's useful answers, after the jump. (Excuse his spelling: he's a poet.)
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By Nick DentonComment by Rossini: Since no one has asked, will it make my teeth fall out? more » | Other threads
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data point
42%
The percentage of respondents in our poll who say they've at least experimented with Adderall. (Maybe users of the speed-like pill just click more.) The poll's still open, here.
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By Nick DentonComment by SmokeandMirrors: @PandoraSpocks: very true. Throw in some Concerta, and I'm on the list: relationship? Marriage. more » | Other threads
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The drug habits of the creative underclass
So Adderall and other "cognitive enhancers" are becoming fashionable among otherwise slothful creative types. That's the meme, promoted subtly by drug marketers and sensation-seeking reporters. The reality? You, oppressed members of the creative underclass, tell us: More »
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By Nick DentonComment by VeganRampage: @cassandra: Now I am disturbed because I am so new never heard of Gawker until 2 weeks ago, was way... more » | Other threads
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a gawker investigation
"I love my orange pills"
Yesterday's casting call, for users of cognitive enhancers, has produced a winner. W, a 27-year-old with a "big, fancy job" in Manhattan, says she started taking Adderall in college, and never stopped. "Beats the fuck out of coffee," she says. For her not-so-tragic tale, read on. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by adman23: listen sweatheart,I too had a love affair with adderall...in college...it got to a point where I thought I couldn't even... more » | Other threads
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a gawker investigation
The drug habits of the creative underclass
The Los Angeles Times recently offered an intriguing report on "cognitive enhancers," the batch of attention-focusing and memory-helping drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin. (Also known as amphetamines, but that sounds so low-rent.) A 2005 survey that found 4-7% of college students had used. The real question: how many of them continued beyond graduation when they moved to the big city and took jobs at glamorous magazine companies and blog conglomerates? The LAT says use of amphetamines—sorry, cognitive enhancers—is widespread in the creative professions. Well, that's what an unprincipled drug marketer, and a headline-grubbing writer, would want to believe. The mundane reality? Probably caffeine abuse. But you tell us. Let's talk.
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Comment by dcoe18: Why don't I know about these drugs? I'm always the last to know. That mechanical engineering degree kicked... more » | Other threads
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what we need more of is science
"U.S. medical researchers have discovered use of the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug Ritalin by young children might affect their brains." Um, isn't that the point? Also, what about the massive use of Adderall by adults? Does that do anything bad, brain-wise? A, uh, friend wants to know. [UPI]
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By abalkComment by raincoaster: @Joe Buck: isn't rathood a prerequisite for executivehood? FYI they give Ritalin to narcoleptics because it causes their brains to wake... more » | Other threads
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By abalkComment by LadyChatterley: Scout, you act like he has a choice... He's been non compos mentus for a while now. more » | Other threads
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remainders
Remainders: Graydon Carter, Bergdorf Blond?
- Ex-Spy editors give freewheeling interview to ... Bergdorf Goodman magazine. [Michael Gross] More »
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