It is interesting to think that not only a substance that can make you feel like bugs are croaking all over you and you are scratching your skin trying to get rid of them. them, but that there is a large percentage of the population who prefer this to reality. Do you ever sit there and wonder what the purpose of life is? Do you want life to be different? Of course you do, and so do the rest of us mortals. Of course, there are things people do to fulfill their dreams of a different life. The best challenges would be going to school, finding a job, taking up an art form, and other forms of hard work that are generally accepted forms of personal development. Because, of course, if you are working, these drugs are not recreational drugs and are not used to alter reality to fit the mind, but rather to alter the mind to fit reality . With the buffet of medications ranging from antidepressants to mood stabilizers, we've become accustomed to popping pills to get through the day. The rise of disorders such as ADHD, autism and bipolar depression are most often the excuse for the massive amounts of drugs used by society. Yet that doesn't explain why so many people don't receive a diagnosis and still find the medication they need to get through the day. A common complaint is that children fifty years ago did not need these medications, so why would children today need them? Well, the simple answer is: today we expect a lot more from children than we did a century ago, when drugs didn't exist and teenagers weren't depressed more often than in the past. Yet we continue to impose more and more expectations on children at younger and younger ages. This only affects students who take these medications as prescribed. According to a 2006 study, up to thirty-five percent of students use stimulants for ADHD. (Illicit Use of Prescription Medication for ADHD in College