Twenty-five percent of college students admit to using Adderall to assist them with their studies, according to a report by the Journal of Law & Education’s Chalk Talk Adderall Abuse. It has become commonplace to see Adderall being used by people who are undiagnosed.

SMU students had mixed reactions about the prevalence of Adderall on campus.

Senior engineering major Paul Jujan did not notice students using Adderall too much—at least, not anymore.

“I was an RA so people didn’t show it to me” Jujan said.

He thought that Adderall abuse might be a problem for students who don’t have good time management skills, but said it’s different for students majoring in engineering.

“I feel like in engineering we have more daily homework, so that is why I don’t see it being used as much as students in liberal arts who have to study for 10 hours and write long papers more,” Jujan said.

First-year Kendra Peck and her friends, Samantha Waldman and Eva Ravenel, haven’t come across people who misuse Adderall at SMU. They all said that it was wrong if students who weren’t prescribed Adderall used it to help them study for classes.

“I’m sure it goes on, but I don’t think there’s a problem here on campus,” Peck said. “I think there are bigger issues.”

Senior lecturer Bruce Levy shared that he definitely has had students in his classes that he suspected were misusing Adderall.

“Especially in December and April, those seem to be the main months students use it,” Levy said.

Overall, students and teachers had varying responses about the prevalence of Adderral on SMU’s campus.