Study finds students tweet about Adderall. A lot

Published November 25, 2013 10:23pm ET



USA TODAY – Twitter, to most students, is a 140-character social media platform where they can freely express the stresses of college, frustrations and opinions.

Yet Twitter also has become a platform for studying the abuse of pharmaceutical drugs among those students.

A recent study performed at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, examined the tweets of college students across the USA for mentions of the pharmaceutical drug Adderall.

The drug has become increasingly more common among students looking to increase concentration and production during “crunch times” such as midterms and finals week.

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