

Prescription Adderall is a potentially addictive amphetamine which lists insomnia, changes in appetite and high blood pressure among its most common side effects.

It's a little unclear how ADDTabz differs from the real deal. It's not hard to see why: Gentech Pharmaceutical, the Florida-based distributor of ADDTabz, says on its website the supplement "improves memory and learning," "enhances cognitive ability," "improves total brain function" and "reduces anxiety and improves mood." Those could be pretty tempting claims to a student looking for an edge in the pressure cooker of college. Increasingly, college students are misappropriating this sort of good-grade pill without a prescription and without a real medical need. The ad was hawking ADDTabz, a supplement promoted as a non-prescription alternative to the ADHD drug Adderall. The ad was quickly yanked on Monday, but not before it caught the attention of, which skewered the paper for sponsoring a supplement that purports to give students a chemically-enhanced leg up on the competition. Image: Ĭoming right after Harvard's recent cheating scandal, the staff at its student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, may be a little red in the face today after approving an ad for a pill that promises to improve brain function without a prescription. Gentech promotes ADDTabz as a nonprescription alternative to Adderall, which contains amphetamines.
