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Email to a friendCollege Students Illicitly Use Prescription Stimulants to Concentrate, Increase Alertness, Get High
Center for Substance Abuse Research.
http://www.cesar.umd.edu/cesar/cesarfax/vol15/15-13.pdf
The most common motive for use reported was to help with concentration (58%), followed by to increase alertness (43%), and to get high (43%). The proportion of users reporting each motive remained the same regardless of gender, having been previously prescribed stimulant medications, or the number of occasions of illicit prescription stimulant use. The study also found that students who reported using the drugs to counteract the effects of other drugs or to get high were more likely to also report past year cocaine and amphetamine use, which ìmay reflect a more extensive stimulant use profile for those students who use illicit prescription stimulants to counteract the effects of other drugs or to get high.î
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