In addition, the report notes that the drug also increases the risk for mental health problems, including depression, bipolar disorder and unusual behaviors, including aggressive or hostile behavior.įor the study, researchers focused on three sources of data: the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, a population survey of substance use the Drug Abuse Warning Network, a survey of emergency department visits and the National Disease and Therapeutic Index, a survey of office-based practices including prescribing. A black box warning was added to the label in 2006, the authors point out. While dextroamphetamine-amphetamine, marketed as Adderall, improves focus, it also can cause sleep disruption and serious cardiovascular side effects, such as high blood pressure and stroke, according to the study. We need to educate this group that there could be serious adverse effects from taking these drugs and we don't know much at all about their long-term health effects.” Our sense is that a sizeable proportion of those who use them believe these medications make them smarter and more capable of studying. “In college, especially, these drugs are used as study-aid medication to help students stay up all night and cram. “The growing problem is among young adults,” explained co-author Ramin Mojtabai, MD, MPH, PhD, professor of mental health at the Bloomberg School. In fact, the study finds that 18-to-25-year-olds made up 60% of all nonmedical use of dextroamphetamine-amphetamine, from age 12 and up. Researchers led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzed trends from 2006 to 2011 and found that the abusers tended not to have prescriptions but were getting the medication from family and friends. Baltimore-Why have emergency department visits gone up dramatically for young adults using dextroamphetamine-amphetamine, even though prescription rates have remained steady?Ī study published recently in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry finds that misuse of the drugs isn’t primarily among older children and adolescents-as conventional wisdom has suggested-but, instead, that inappropriate use by young adults, aged 18 to 25 years, is driving the problem.
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