Adderall

While were on the subject of Adderall and because it’s time to open the Bitter Vault, let’s take a look at the other side.  See the link below.

Sure, on paper it may not be ethical or “right” to use stimulants like Adderall or Ritalin when you haven’t been diagnosed with ADD or a similar disorder. But where do you draw the line? Caffeine stimulates basically the same part of the brain as these amphetamines. Thus, should law schools and firms remove their coffeemakers and ban caffeine drinks from the premises? Wouldn’t that make it a more level playing field? Or is our main rub with the legality of it all? That is to say, anyone can drink caffeine but the law requires a prescription from a licensed medical professional to ingest “A-Bombs”.

In the end, the larger concern should be that these are serious f’ing drugs — distant cousins of cocaine, and that chronic and long term use has the huge potential to mess you up and destroy lives. Users of these drugs, whether illicit or kosher, should ask themselves whether the legal profession is right for them if they need amphetamines to make it. The effects of long term use of these drugs have not been studied to any great degree, but it’s not unreasonable to assume that the ol’ ticker is going to give out much sooner than had it not lived a life constantly being redlined. Everything has its price.

This one is from Law School 10.

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Quite a few law students abuse Adderall and other “study drugs.” There is an epidemic of high school students using non-prescription drugs in order to focus during exams and study for long stretches of time. It is sad and alarming to think that young people feel the need to abuse their bodies and minds to gain a slight edge over the competition in order to get into elite colleges. The fact that law students abuse the same drugs is bothersome, mostly because they should know better.
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The Adderall Diaries

by Law Firm 10 on May 31, 2011 in Columns

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Somebody once called the law a jealous mistress, although I can’t recall who (maybe it was the guy whose dead body is on display at University College London and in a photo on page 330 of my Property textbook). In any case, it’s totally true. And I’m afraid my mistress is going to dump me unless I can get my hands on a legal source of Adderall.

Anyone who assumes I spend all my spare time agonizing over men is only half right.

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The A&E Diet

by Mr. Law School on May 31, 2011 in Video

When the law chicks and dudes study the only thing that matters is concentration. They need to sit for 12 hour periods and stare at the pages pf contracts, property, or Wills and Trusts. Eating food does not help with this at all. So the law chicks and dudes turn to what I like to call the A&E diet. Sure they may now be able to concentrate but they certainly are not sane. Check out the A&E diet on this week’s episode of Mr. Law School with Sam E. Goldberg.