I am sure that all of you have heard of Aderol. It is a powerful drug prescribed to those suffering of Attention Deficit Disorders. I first heard of it from a friend who attends the University of Central Florida. He told me that his friend has ADD and he gets it for free whenever he needs to study. I questioned him and said that if he needed a drug to help him study then he needs to try harder in class or he needs to go to a doctor and get Aderol prescribed to him because he must have some sort of Attention Deficit Disorder. In a previous blog I stated my theory: “you attend class, you pay attention in class, you do your assignments, you pass your final.” If he needs Aderol to get through this then he must be suffering from an ADD.
Later this semester a friend of mine from my dorm asked me if I had Aderol prescribed to me because she had a big test on the next day and she needed to study all night and the only way she could concentrate is through this drug.
“No, I don’t take Aderol.”
“Do you know anyone who does?”
“I do not. I am sorry.”
She was extremely upset because she thought she was going to fail her test.
I am writing about this because I am appalled regarding how fierce the competition has become in regards to school. Good students are turning to a drug in order to be able to absorb all of the information they need to learn. I did not understand at first, but now I have come to understand.
Across the country as soon as a child starts to attend school this instant pressure is applied to him or her. The child is evaluated and sometimes he or she will be classified as gifted. The child will carry that title until high school and it brings benefits to him but also brings stress because now that the child has been labeled gifted, more is expected from him. The same goes for Advanced Placement classes, I.B. programs, Dual Enrollment… It is beneficial in a sense but then the majority of the students who are not in those categories must work even harder just to be able to catch up to the “worst of the best.”
It has come to that in college students make more decisions for themselves and drugs are easily accessible. This is a concern I have. Nobody really knows what kind of impact Aderol will have on an individual in a few years. But I just wanted to say that taking a drug is not the way to get an A. Trying harder is. Believe me, I do it!
A study aid as well as a powerful drug
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