It was described to be like this by a mother who went through this: she watched her child struggle with homework, not being able to focus, getting bad grades, falling behind in reading and math. One of doctors suggested this "pill". She gave it to her son, and then that same night she watched him sit down and do homework like she's never seen him before. In that respect it was an easy decision. That was in the late-80s or early 90s. Her son became pretty successful and is doing quite well. She credits that success in part to the decision to give him those pills.

It was not about a competitive edge, acing the SAT or going into Harvard, for them back then it was about not failing behind and ended up in remedial classes.