Many high school and college students illegally use amphetamines often for sports, finals, ACT/SAT testing, just cause

9% of boys and 4% of girls are prescribed amphetamines before high school 

Over the past 15 years, prescriptions of these drugs have increased due to lower tolerance in society for mild behavioral or cognitive problems

Patients are no longer taking medications through grade school but are encouraged to stay on them through adulthood.

With expanded and extended use is increasingly concerned in the long run. Some effects such as increased anxiety and depress mood are now less worrisome than new research that long term cognitive deficits

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