Here are 3 reasons you should avoid these stimulants unless you’ve been prescribed them by your physician.
First, there are significant long-term consequences to using these drugs including cardiovascular complications, addiction, and other detrimental effects on your health and well-being.
Next, research has shown that non-prescription stimulant use does not significantly improve academic performance. In fact, non-pharmacological approaches, such as mindfulness meditation, have demonstrated much stronger improvements in both focus and academic performance than stimulant use.
Lastly, it makes you a worse student. Relying on stimulants as a crutch to get you through your studying cheats you out of the growth and development necessary to become an effective and competent student.
Instead of building good habits, honing your study strategies, and optimizing your time, stimulants encourage you to take a brute-force approach and study longer, not smarter.
Given the limited potential upside, using stimulants to help grind out a few extra hours of studying does not appear wise from a cost/benefit analysis perspective.
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