It's interesting to think that, not only can a substance make you feel like there are bugs scratching at you so that you scratch your skin in an attempt to get rid of them, but that there is a large percentage of the population who actually prefer this to the real thing. Do you ever sit there and wonder what the purpose of life is? Do you fantasize that life is different? Well, of course you do, along with the rest of us mortals. Of course there are things people do to make dreams of a different life come true. Your best bet would be to go to school, get a job, take up an art form, and other forms of hard work that are generally accepted forms of self-improvement. Because, obviously, if you work, 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 smorgasbord 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 commonly the excuse for the massive amounts of drugs used by society. But that doesn't explain why there are so many people who are diagnosed with nothing and yet find the medications they need to get through the day. A common complaint is that children fifty years ago did not need such drugs, so why should children today need them? Well, the answer is simple: We expect much more from children today than we did a century ago, when drugs didn't exist and teenagers were no longer commonly depressed. Yet we continue to push more and more expectations onto children at ever younger ages. This means thinking only of students who take these medications as prescribed. According to a study conducted in 2006, 35% of college students use stimulants for ADHD. (Illicit use of prescription ADHD drugs in college