Do you consider taking adderall to study for test cheating?

I consider it stupid.

@thriftymaid do you consider it cheating?

Why would it? It’s not a pill magically takes your test for you.
It’s not cheating to stay up all night taking crystal meth while studying either but at what cost does this advantage take on your body?

I do when they don’t have a prescription. When you have a disability that sets you behind everyone else, and you take something just to level the playing field that’s fine. But when the field is level, and you’re taking it to get ahead, that’s cheating. Same as in sports.

It’s not cheating unless you’re using it to tell you the answers during the test.
It’s assisting you in studying.
It’s helping your desire to get a better grade on the test by allowing you to focus on studying.
I see nothing wrong with it, as long as you’re not abusing the Adderall to achieve anything other than a calm mindset used for studying.

How can it be cheating? It doesn’t tell you the answers, does it? It only help you concentrate. How is that any different from the many energy drinks, herbal supplements that promise to do the same thing? It’s not a smart idea to take it if it’s not prescribed to you, of course, but I still wouldn’t go so far as to call it cheating.

Nope. And considering the amount of real cheating that goes on here, at my school, it would hardly even provide a competitive advantage.

Why would that be cheating?!?! it doesn’t make you smarter. Just because it helps you concentrate more has nothing to do with your academic aptitude. It could distract you to concentrate on a piece of lint float around the room fro all you know.

I don’t think it’s cheating, but I don’t know how smart it is.

It’s different from steroids, I think, in most people’s minds. With steroid muscles, you are giving yourself an unfair advantage over those who use un-medicated ways of bulking up. That’s cheating because you are playing a game that wants us to play on a level playing field.

But mental effort—we’re not playing a game against each other here. We are working to be the best so we can make a better contribution and make more money. Already people with money have an advantage over the poor. We don’t make everyone start from the same place. There is no level playing field in life, so study drugs don’t really make a difference. It’s the same old, same old.

Academic tests evaluate knowledge and skill, not focus.

I agree with @Nullo on this one. Never thought I’d be saying that, but here it is. :)

That would be like saying studying for twice as long as everyone else is cheating. Or studying in the minutes before the test is cheating. It’s not. Cheating is, in my opinion, when you are obtaining the answers from another source while taking a test. Writing on your hand, glancing at someone else, Morse code with your friends representing A, B, C, and D, etc.

@jackm No, I don’t really consider it cheating. But, I do consider it inappropriate and without a prescription very stupid. Three teenagers were killed in my community several years ago; the driver was using an ADD drug without a prescription and in an irresponsible way.

@DominicX We’ve had our agreements before. o_o