People like this make it harder for people like me to get medication. Every time I move to a new area or start seeing a new Dr I get grilled and am guilty until I can convince them of my legitimate need. It's also why I can't get a prescription for longer than a month and have to go back in every 30 days to pick up my prescription.
Maybe 'Alex' just needs to get a grip and realize that you can't have it all.
A Reporter at Large: Brain Gain: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
A young man I’ll call Alex recently graduated from Harvard. As a history major, Alex wrote about a dozen papers a semester. He also ran a student organization, for which he often worked more than forty hours a week; when he wasn’t on the job, he had classes. Weeknights were devoted to all the schoolwork that he couldn’t finish during the day, and weekend nights were spent drinking with friends and going to dance parties. “Trite as it sounds,” he told me, it seemed important to “maybe appreciate my own youth.” Since, in essence, this life was impossible, Alex began taking Adderall to make it possible.
