Oh great you Idiot!!

[meridionaleDG]

At the end of MTV's True Life a second ago, they played a little blurb for the new season. The blurb had a fraternity guy in his letters popping adderall while the announcer says something about abusing adderall.

Next time you want to be on tv to show your drug habits, how about you take off your letters?

[mullet81]

i totally saw that too and thought "IDIOT!!!"

[PhiPsiRuss]

was it a national GLO?

[JennRN]

OMG, I just saw that too!! I was like-you're doing that in your letters on freaking national TV??

I think it was Theta Chi?

[33girl]

I'm having a brain fart...what does adderall do? Isn't it a prescription drug?

Not that that makes the habit any better, but at least he isn't on tv freebasing cocaine.

[sugar and spice]

And there was the frat guy on "True Life: I'm a Binge Drinker" too.

For some reason I don't think these kids are too concerned with not promoting the Greek stereotypes.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by 33girl
I'm having a brain fart...what does adderall do? Isn't it a prescription drug?

Not that that makes the habit any better, but at least he isn't on tv freebasing cocaine.

Its a federally controlled stimulant used to treat ADD.

[PsychTau]

Originally posted by russellwarshay
Its a federally controlled stimulant used to treat ADD.

To add to that, if someone takes it that doesn't have ADD, it pretty much acts like speed or crystal meth. I've heard of lots of moms taking their kids' adderall to keep things going.

[meridionaleDG]

People use it as speed or to concentrate better on tests. People with eating disorders also use it because it decreases appetite.

It is a perscription drug, but there are different levels. Adderall is a lot higher up on the schedules than say an antibiotic or something.

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by 33girl
I'm having a brain fart...what does adderall do? Isn't it a prescription drug?

People take it recreationally. Some simply swallow the pill, others crush it and snort it, and still others shoot it up. Chances are he was taking it recreationally--for a cocaine-like high, or to stay up during midterms or finals--than to treat ADD.

ETA: MeridonaleDG said basically the same thing while I was submitting this. Oh well.

[Pi Kapp 142]

In the 70's it was a reall popular thing to take for body builders to cut before a big competition. Large doses, really screwed with your behavior, "Roid rages".

[AOII*Azra-elle]

Well, in that True Life I'm a Binge Drinker there was one girl that had learned her lesson from drinking and had to go to court. Until it airs, he may be one of the people that have to have adderal for ADD/ADHD. Just because we see doesn't mean that he's abusing it....

Just a thought.

[KDbutterfly]

That's so weird that they're doing a True Life story on it, cause that drug is totally going around a few fraternities on my campus. I was dating a guy in one of the fraternities, and I couldn't believe how he and quite a few others in his house abused that drug. I never understood why they thought they needed it to keep up with their homework. That's so stupid that the guy was in his letters, but at the same time, I can say from experience that prescription drugs have a way of going around fraternity houses. I'll definitely tune in to that episode when it's on.

[Colonist]

Aderall is common everywhere.

[layla2728]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
And there was the frat guy on "True Life: I'm a Binge Drinker" too.

For some reason I don't think these kids are too concerned with not promoting the Greek stereotypes.

Funny you mention that... the frat guy on that True Life goes to UM. I met him at his frat's party, and they're actually very proud of that fact- they brag about it at every opportunity. Pretty sad.