Lawyers & Adderall Abuse: A Recipe For Disaster
Overworked? Abuse of even a 'benign' drug like Adderall is a sympton.
Overworked? Abuse of even a 'benign' drug like Adderall is a sympton.
Law students are purchasing the drug on the black market because they believe it will give them a competitive advantage.
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Adderall use -- both prescribed and illegally obtained -- is prevalent for both law school and bar exam study.
Of course they're all on drugs...
Is this what it takes to get ahead?
How should people with learning disabilities or difficulties be treated when taking the LSAT?
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* Gun nuts want to prevent THE PENTAGON from buying too many bullets. [Talking Points Memo] * Subway employees can be held liable for not helping police officers. I’m a legal genius. [New York Law Journal] * Employment lawyers get catty on their way out of the door. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight] * Do top firms even have compliance departments? [Corporate Counsel] * Colleges are cracking down on Adderall abuse. So… it only took administrators about a decade to figure out that was going on. [New York Times] * Okay, now Obama is going to close Guantanamo. And by “close,” I think he means “finds other excuses to leave it open.” [SCOTUSblog]
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We might have evidence on just how Stanford was able to jump ahead of HLS this year. A tipster reports that there's an Adderall epidemic at Stanford Law. He says there might be an "Adderall ring" at the law school. Maybe. Or maybe one pill fell on the ground...
A little while back, we asked how many of you had tried Adderall, the ADHD drug that some students use to get a boost around study time. A whopping 30% of you said you had tried the drug and 70% of you are lying.
But now let's ask the fun question. Is using Adderall that big of a deal?
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Adderall, as we understand it, is the same as Ritalin, but better. It's easy to get your hands on -- all you have to do is fake the ADHD exam and you have your very own prescription for an amphetamine for law school and beyond. Or you can bum one off of a friend as finals stress approaches. Haven't you done that? Come on, be honest....
* I suppose stealing lobsters from Africa for export back to the U.S. is better than the alternative. [WSJ Law Blog] * Adderall ring busted in Brooklyn! Don’t worry guys, looks like med students and doctors were the main miscreants (but a Tennessee lawyer is suspected of being a supplier). [Gothamist] * You can now […]