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Drug facts don’t lie. Designer drugs and academic use especially of Ritalin drugs is on the increase as students and white collar workers go to more extreme lengths to achieve top grades in their chosen careers.
The long term effects of drugs, any drug, is usually a serious downturn in your health, and if you use recreational drugs usually without adequate knowledge of possible side effects and complications, well simply put, you are risking your life.
So what exactly is a recreational drug? Usually it is a prescription drug designed to treat a condition, wrongly used as a stimulant. Such an example is the drug Ritalin, a brand name for methylphenidate which is used to treat ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) in children.
The affects of drugs of this nature is to pump a rush of adrenaline into your bloodstream causing an increase in your blood pressure and pulse rate. Your pupils also tend to dilate.
This can be extremely dangerous, because if you have an underlying cardiac disorder you are at serious risk of a heart attack.
Using such drugs in sport as everyone knows is now very difficult to do because of random drug testing and such sports persons are considered ‘cheats’. How long will it be before such random drug testing has to be introduced before examinations?
Students in particular use the drugs to pull ‘all nighters’, extended periods of study throughout the night prior to examinations. Some actually use them during class because they feel more alert and attentive. Students say they are easily purchased from other students or obtained from classmates who have been prescribed them.
It seems that the traditional caffine used to achieve these ends is less effective, and naturally the temptation is strong to use recreational drugs or study drugs as they are sometimes known.
When asked why do they do it, typical answers are, “It helps me stay awake and stimulates my mind”, and, “I can stay awake in class concentrate on the subject matter”. In law possession of these drugs which have not prescribed to you can lead to a five-year prison sentence and selling them to get you up to 14 years in prison. Students and academics continue to use Ritalin drugs because as another student put it, “It’s easy to buy and very cheap”.
It’s also easy to obtain a recreational drug on the Internet.
I’d be interested to hear what you think. Do you agree with the use of performance enhancing drugs?
The facts don’t lie. As more and more people begin to use recreational drugs, more students are going to find themselves in serious health issues, or perhaps die suddenly. Is your life really worth a better exam result? These are the drug facts painful as they may be.
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