{"id":9615,"date":"2022-10-16T03:39:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T22:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2025-03-29T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:55:00","slug":"adderall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/adderall\/","title":{"rendered":"Adderall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Adderall:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Adderall is the brand name for the formulation that consists of a combination of\u00a0<strong>dextroamphetamine and amphetamine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an\u00a0<strong>FDA-approved drug for the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy<\/strong>, a sleep condition that causes daytime sleepiness.<\/li>\n<li>Adderall belongs to the class of drugs known as\u00a0<strong>stimulants<\/strong>\u00a0and increases the levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain.<\/li>\n<li>For people diagnosed with ADHD, Adderall can help improve focus, concentration, impulse control and hyperactivity, because of its effects on the central nervous system.<\/li>\n<li>Adderall is classified as a\u00a0<strong>Schedule II drug in the US,\u00a0<\/strong>which means that while it has positive medicinal effects, there is a large potential for abuse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/why-the-us-is-facing-a-shortage-of-adderall-used-to-treat-adhd-8210883\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adderall is name of the formulation that consists of a combination of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}