Seems like EVERYBODY takes Adderall now. When the house next door to me was a rental, the college students who lived there were outside loudly talking about taking it. It was night and I could hear them inside. I went out to ask them to keep it down or go inside, but I stood and listened.
Woody Allen mentioned Adderall in his new memoir. When I took a relative to the emergency room, it was on his list of medications. Comedians Andy Kindler and Josh Weinstein talk about it on their podcast.
Everyone gets Adderall but me. I'm not sure how I feel about this. A fifteen-year-old had a heart attack taking it.
Take Your Pills is a documentary on Netflix about Adderall and other such stimulants and their widespread use. Doctors who were early advocates for its use for children now regret it.
Ritalin was first created by a chemist for his wife, Rita (hence the name), to help her lose weight and have more energy. The guy sounds like a monster.
The documentary seemed kind of middling which may be what you want in a documentary of this type. They interview a guy who was unhappy that he was forced to take it as a kid, a mother who had a photo of her son's bruised face---he would get into fights when he didn't take his Adderall. And bourgeois college students illegally buying and selling their Adderall, sometimes on public forums, seemingly oblivious to the fact that it was a serious crime.
There were kids who were embarrassed that they had to take it as children. There was a clip from a movie. We see a shot of a young man asking if "any of you take Adderall and want to make fifty bucks". A reverse shot reveals that he's talking to a group of bewildered grade school boys sitting on their bikes.
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