“However, students who misuse these drugs by using someone else’s medications expose themselves to significant risk.”
Research at Ohio State and elsewhere, said Hale, has shown that using prescription stimulants to help study actually has the reverse effect — and results typically in lower grade-point averages.
“At one time, college students most commonly misused drugs to get high,” Hale said. “But today, students also use medications to self-medicate, to manage their lives. They are using drugs to control pain, to go to sleep, to relieve anxiety and to study.”
