This one goes out to the self-righteous person who claimed that "the only people who really believe that crap [that stimulants = cheating] are people who don't take the stimulants and still get crappy grades". Well, I get great grades, I don't depend on stimulants, and I absolutely believe them to be methods of cheating. How is it NOT cheating?? I laughed when I read "it doesn't allow anyone who takes it to compress an abnormal amount of information into their memory." Um... simply, yes it does. Why else would people use it? It allows a person to study not only for a longer period of time, but also to RETAIN the information more efficiently. There has been one time in my life that was an extraordinary situation where I used a Daytrana patch (basically Adderall in a patch form), and I fully admit that it was cheating. Did I HAVE to use it? No. I easily could have just pulled an all-nighter the old-fashioned way with some coffee and energy drinks to keep me up. And if some people think "well, isn't that the same thing?", the answer is no. On the surface they may FEEL the same, but they serve different purposes. Not that I drink coffee or energy drinks much, but both of these things are intended to simply keep you awake. Adderall and Ritalin take it a step further. They help you CONCENTRATE and they help you retain the information so your brain is essentially a sponge. It's wildly unfair to say that students who don't use Adderall or Ritalin "aren't keeping up with the competition" just because we don't want to jeopardize our health! People that use these substances illegally need to realize that they got into BU for a reason. They have a brain, and they need to put it to real use, instead of injecting it with more chemicals. Oh, that reminds me. The person who talked about Dopamine and schizophrenia.... that's a huge stretch. It is only a THEORY that schizophrenia is linked with Dopamine levels in the brain. Bottom line is that Adderall and Ritalin are straight up academic steroids. People need to gain some confidence in their natural studying ability.