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Since being on the medication and regaining my confidence and realizing I can do it, it's made me stay with what I really want to do," she said.
If she's having a focused day or if she doesn't have homework, Podrebarac doesn't always take her nighttime Adderall. A friend suggested she sell her excess medication during finals last semester. Podrebarac declined, her reasoning being it can actually have an opposite effect on people who don't have ADHD.
"It just kind of seems like a silly thing to me," she said. "There are other alternatives that are actually going to make you feel better."
When Michelle Nguyen, a freshman from Wichita, is approached to sell her prescribed Adderall, she said it frustrates her.
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"I'm not offended, but it's annoying," she said. "If someone knows you take it, they come at you."
Nguyen said people who have never talked to her before will approach her to buy her Adderall.
She thinks the drug's effect on these students is more psychological than physical.
"I feel like they do have the ability to study, they use Addlerall as an excuse," she said.
A student, who wished to remain anonymous, said he has used the drug during finals in the past to buckle down and keep himself from being distracted.
He said he felt extra focused and driven to do his best, but as an already focused student
it wasn't something he needed. It was more of an experiment. Like Nguyen, he found it to be more of a placebo effect.
"I don't feel like I see this incredible jump in abilities or anything like that," he said. "If anything, taking it just puts you in the right mind set to get that sort of work done. That's the way I look at it."
And like many others, he doesn't have a prescription. Outside connections and friends of friends are his hookup. The prices depend on dosage: a 10 or 20 milligram tablet typically costs two dollars, and a 30 milligram tablet is usually five dollars.
Jordan Razook, a freshman from Wichita, who formerly sold pills from his prescription, said the price depends on familiarity.
"If they want it and they're going to pay me for it, I'll provide it," he said. "If I know the person, I'll sell it pretty cheap, maybe like two or three bucks, but if they didn't know me, like five bucks."
Razook stopped getting refills about a year ago because it made him feel "tweaks"
He said he knows people who use their prescriptions mostly to sell the pills for the extra cash.
"I know people who would sell the majority of their prescription, they make a lot of money off of it actually," he said. "And you can use that to buy more when your prescription runs out."
According to StreetRx.com, a website that displays prices of recent illegal drug transactions by location and type of drug, prices in Kansas for Adderall in the week of May 6
ranged from a "reasonable" $5 for a 30 mg pill to a $79 transaction for 20 mg.
Obtaining a prescription-only drug is a class A nonperson misdemeanor in Kansas, with a possible fine of up to $2,500 and up to one year in jail.
The man who granted anonymity said acing an exam while on Vyvanse or Adderall can be justifiable.
"You're still sitting there, you're still putting in all the hours and all the work. You're just doing it under the influence of a drug that makes it easier" he said. "You're not being dishonest in any way. You're just going about it a different way."
In his opinion, if someone is interested in the drug they should try it.
The reality is that the underground market for Adderall is thriving on campus, and the situation isn't unique to the University.
"It's not like people are testing you to see if you've taken it. It's not that big of a deal right now. The consequences don't outweigh the means."
— Edited by Tara Bryant
"It just goes to show you that whenever there's a large gathering of college-age kids that have all this work to do," he said. "Adderall is going to be involved no matter where you are."
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