Thank you for writing that story on adderall in BU Today. It is especially relevant since this week is Finals Week. Unfortunately though, I don't think it captures how severe this problem is. I believe more then 30% of the students out there are using adderall, most illegally and unprescribed. Walk around the SMG library and you will see adderall drug dealers making their rounds. The users are all types of students: Average, non-campus active students to people in the student government. They are in West Campus, Mugar, the GSU: everywhere. But just as important of an issue, aside from the health affects, is the affect that adderall and similar drugs have on student performance. I believe unprescribed use is cheating. Students hyper-focus and study in such a way that themselves, and everyone else, cant study without the drug. It is today's cheating epidemic. People are less frequently looking for answers in an exam from other sources, and are instead filling themselves with adderall. It is why they take it in the first place, to do better on exams. Put two students in a week of the same exams. One with adderall and one with out, and the one with adderall can condense much more information in their brain then the one without it- this is an unfair competitive advantage: cheating. If someone is prescribed the drug from a physician who truly feels they need it, then please take it! But if not, then they better not for the sake of an equitable playing field. What must me done is not just the annual BU today or DFP article, but an on-going campus-wide campaign to end the epidemic. -Geoffrey Weg