After 8 years and 3 dropouts into my 4 year undergrad degree, I was finally diagnosed with ADHD. My pre-diagnosis GPA was 1.9, my post-diagnosis GPA was 3.9. I graduated less than two years later, and within 3 years I was earning a 6-figure income and providing for a wife and newborn child. I would likely be a divorced, homeless, deadbeat dad without Vyvanse (or its similarly Amphetamine-derived Adderall).
Don't take my life away from me, and don't take it away from anyone else, just because you have a fucking delusional conspiracy theory that a drug company is trying to addict kids to speed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T9Aa1V5oyo
But it's about Valium (diazepam) according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Little_Helper
I'd think Speed would have helped mothers more than Valium, but my mom used to say that she and her neighbors just had martinis instead, and a Valium's just a much stronger version of a martini. Ah- the 60's.
Amphetamine you may know better under its colloquial name -- speed. That's right, Shire Pharmaceticals is upset that European doctors and parents aren't rushing to give children fancy, expensive, speed.