“Adderall wiped away the question of willpower. Now I could study all night, then run 10 miles, then breeze through that week’s New Yorker, all without pausing to consider whether I might prefer to chat with classmates or go to the movies. It was fantastic. I lost weight. That was nice, too.” In the NYT Magazine, Casey Schwartz describes her years using prescription stimulants to get through school and start her career. Then she tried to get off them.

+ Also from the NYT: Marijuana arrests outnumber those for violent crimes. (Either we’re arresting too many people for pot, or we need more violent criminals…)