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美国国家公共电台 NPR A New Documentary About Adults On Adderall — And Not Just For ADHD

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SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST:

Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin are commonly prescribed to kids with what's known as ADHD, attention deficit1 hyperactivity disorder2. But recently, adults became the biggest users of these drugs. The new Netflix documentary "Take Your Pills" looks at the pervasiveness3 of these drugs in college classrooms and the workplace.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOUMENTARY, "TAKE YOUR PILLS")

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Every generation has found a different way to try to enhance their performance. Now, in this case, it has been ADHD drugs. This ain't new.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: It's not like a glass of wine or a joint5 or any way that people use to decompress. I really see it as a supplement, as a tool.

MCCAMMON: Director Alison Klayman joins me from our NPR studios in New York. Welcome to the program.

ALISON KLAYMAN: Thanks, Sarah.

MCCAMMON: So we're all familiar with children being prescribed ADHD drugs. Why are so many adults using them now?

KLAYMAN: I think there was a time when attention deficit disorder and ADHD were seen as something that kind of went away as you got older, and increasingly there's adults being diagnosed for the first time. But what the film really looks at, more than just the system - these medical systems is really, what do these pills promise and what do people kind of desire that is making it seem appealing? And, you know, these drugs are associated with keeping better focus. It's, you know, better attention. It's better productivity in this moment where, you know, people are all really feeling squeezed, feeling pressure to perform.

MCCAMMON: Yeah. We hear a lot from people in your film who are using these drugs for that reason. A lot of them are college students. Some are working adults. I want to play a couple clips from the film.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOUMENTARY, "TAKE YOUR PILLS")

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: I have friends that have gotten to the point where they can't really do work without taking Adderall. You get used to it and then you can't do work without it. You can't be productive. I've seen that happen to people.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "TAKE YOUR PILLS")

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Adderall definitely does help me be a better capitalist. When I'm on Adderall, I'm here to solve problems.

MCCAMMON: Alison Klayman, what did you hear from adults who are relying on these drugs?

KLAYMAN: There were at least two different kinds of camps. There are some adults who were using it since high school and even earlier. And then there were some who found it for the first time as an adult. And there was this sort of cycle that people go through where at first it seems like something that's jet fuel, that kind of gets you everything you want. And slowly, people reported needing more and more higher doses in order to keep the efficacy. And also kind of an identity issue of wondering, you know, is it correct that I am associating my success with a need for this as a tool, as a supplement? I think for people who grew up on the medication, a lot of the people that we talked to - and we talked to well over a hundred people - they want to see if they can go off of it.

MCCAMMON: The film talks about the fact that there's research that suggests that for many people, these drugs don't actually make them perform better but they make them feel they perform better. What did the people you talked to say about how these drugs actually, you know, affect their output, their productivity at work or school?

KLAYMAN: While we were shooting the film, you know, people who use Adderall, Ritalin, these drugs regularly - I was surprised how many young people would say, so you're working on this film. Does it work? Like, it's something that...

MCCAMMON: They were asking you?

KLAYMAN: Yeah.

MCCAMMON: And they're the ones taking the drug?

KLAYMAN: (Laughter) Yeah. And I think that they could tell it was doing something. But again, this identity question of how much is me, how much is the drug, and how much is it really helping6 - it seems like the study that's talked about in the film...

MCCAMMON: And which study was that?

KLAYMAN: This is Dr. Martha Farah's study at UPenn. It was done in the 2000s. And what's amazing is that one of the effects of Adderall, which is amphetamine - mixed amphetamine - is that it makes you feel like you are doing better. But the idea that these are smart pills or that they're cognitive7 enhancers is a little bit misguided.

MCCAMMON: You know, you could come away with this film with kind of mixed feelings. On the one hand, a lot of people don't like to think that they need something, that they need a drug to ace4 a test or finish a work project. On the other, it isn't clear what long-term harm these pills do to most people. You know, unless you have a serious medical condition, they're rarely deadly, unlike things like opioids. What harm do you see here?

KLAYMAN: I think the harm that is maybe most urgent, that applies to the most people, is what the film focuses on, which is a little bit more of the identity questions of, you know, what is lost if we are all in an Adderall world. What does it mean to feel like you need it to succeed? From my reporting, that seems like the most widespread, applicable sort of risk and question that needed to be discussed more in the open.

MCCAMMON: Director Alison Klayman - her new documentary, "Take Your Pills," is out tomorrow on Netflix. Thank you.

KLAYMAN: Thank you.


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1 deficit tmAzu     
n.亏空,亏损;赤字,逆差
参考例句:
  • The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
  • We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
2 disorder Et1x4     
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
参考例句:
  • When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
  • It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
3 pervasiveness 39357a08caf13b58fffa2b46afd3fd1d     
n.无处不在,遍布
参考例句:
  • The consistency and pervasiveness of this effect is startling, perhaps even disconcerting. 外表的这种作用始终存在、影响甚广,这实在令人惊讶,甚至烦恼不安。 来自互联网
  • A major cause of this pervasiveness is the structural difference between application logic and security logic. 这种普遍性的主要因素是应用逻辑和安全逻辑之间的结构差。 来自互联网
4 ace IzHzsp     
n.A牌;发球得分;佼佼者;adj.杰出的
参考例句:
  • A good negotiator always has more than one ace in the hole.谈判高手总有数张王牌在手。
  • He is an ace mechanic.He can repair any cars.他是一流的机械师,什么车都会修。
5 joint m3lx4     
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
参考例句:
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
6 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
7 cognitive Uqwz0     
adj.认知的,认识的,有感知的
参考例句:
  • As children grow older,their cognitive processes become sharper.孩子们越长越大,他们的认知过程变得更为敏锐。
  • The cognitive psychologist is like the tinker who wants to know how a clock works.认知心理学者倒很像一个需要通晓钟表如何运转的钟表修理匠。
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