research question

How the quantity of articles, related to the problem, changed from the most circulated 10 US newspapers?

FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV JAN 2013 2012 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 0 1,1 0,9 0,7 0,5 0,3 1,3 1,5 1,7 1,9 2,1 2,3 2,5 2,7 2,9 3,1 3,3 3,5 3,7 0,1 Use of drugs 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 N̊ of articles Data not available yet Articles about Adderall Articles about Adderall and students Full time college students Non college students Newspaper: NewsdayTitle: Ellison: Mother's little helper -- AdderallDate: 16/01/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: A Bridge to Recovery on CampusDate: 20/01/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Viewpoint: Don't alter honor codes to include abuse of non-prescription drugsDate: 20/01/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Ritalin Gone WrongDate: 28/01/2012 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Huguely trial highlights alcohol abuse at colleges, universitiesDate: 18/02/2012 Newspaper: The Los Angeles TimesTitle: Huguely trial highlights alcohol abuse at colleges, universitiesDate: 18/02/2012 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: George Huguely trial highlights alcohol abuse among college studentsDate: 22/02/2012 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: Demi Moore's daughter Scout Willis sets up shocking Twitter account as part of college project Date: 22/03/2012 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: The Washington Post Young Journalists Development Program hosted awards ceremony Date: 21/05/2012 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: College Word of the Year Contest contenders: Drunkorexia, shmacked and FOMODate: 29/05/2012 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: When parents can’t cope; Moms and dads turn to their kids Ambien and Adderall to ‘get through the day’ Date: 08/06/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Snorting the Good Grade Drug Date: 10/06/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Prescription Drugs and High Achievers Date: 11/06/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: In Their Own Words: ‘Study Drugs’ Date: 13/06/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: ‘Study Drugs’ Popular Among High School Students Date: 17/06/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Risky Rise of the Good-Grade Pill Date: 17/06/2012 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: You're not special Date: 20/06/2012 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: Acceptable asterisk - beyond the study drugs addiction Date: 06/07/2012 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: How AA fails to support young addicts Date: 14/07/2012 Newspaper: New York PostTitle: It’s a culture of cheating Date: 12/07/2012 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: Book World: ‘Buried on Avenue B’ Date: 05/08/2012 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Roommates who snore... and 14 other reasons students don't get enough sleep Date: 17/08/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Raising the Ritalin Generation Date: 18/08/2012 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: Harvard Crimson takes down ads for 'Adderall alternative' on its website Date: 04/09/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School Date: 09/10/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Pills for the Struggling Student Date: 09/10/2012 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Children with ADHD say stimulant drugs help them Date: 14/10/2012 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Kids with ADHD have dimmer prospects as adults: study Date: 15/10/2012 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: A pill not in the best interest of healthy students Date: 18/10/2012 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Viewpoint: We don’t need study aid pills to succeed Date: 24/10/2012 Newspaper: New York PostTitle: Student life at NYU is Rx-rated Date: 29/10/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: How Science Can Build a Better You Date: 03/11/2012 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Human enhancements at work pose ethical dilemmas Date: 06/11/2012 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Students seek aid from Adderall as finals approach Date: 30/11/2012 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Sunday Dialogue: Medicating for A.D.H.D. Date: 08/12/2012 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: GMU student charged with dealing drug used as study aid, police say Date: 27/12/2012 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: Talk about a buzzkill! Energy drinks sent 20,000 people to ER over 4-year period: study Date: 16/01/2013 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: ER visits tied to energy drinks double since 2007 Date: 16/01/2013 Newspaper: NewsdayTitle: Mills: Three years after J.D. Salinger's death, what to make of Holden Caulfield? Date: 25/01/2013 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: OTC ‘study aide’ supplements that mimic Adderall are unregulated and potentially dangerous: report Date: 30/01/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions Date: 02/02/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: A Tale of Adderall Abuse and Suicide Date: 04/02/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Prescription Drug Abuse Date: 12/02/2013 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Kane County parents hear dangers of prescription drug abuse Date: 22/02/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: The Last All-Nighter Date: 04/03/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: The Competition Drug Date: 04/03/2013 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Be cautious of mind-altering drugs for kids: doctors Date: 13/03/2013 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Don't give kids ADHD drugs as study aid, doctors warn Date: 13/03/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: A.D.H.D. Seen in 11% of U.S. Children as Diagnoses Rise Date: 31/03/2013 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: ADHD diagnoses in U.S. children rise 53% in the past decade, CDC data show Date: 01/04/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: More Diagnoses of Hyperactivity in New C.D.C. Data Date: 01/04/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Diagnosis: Human Date: 02/04/2013 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Best lesson for kids: No shortcuts Date: 03/04/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: The Questions Raised by a Son’s Death Date: 09/04/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Attention-Deficit Drugs Face New Campus Rules Date: 30/04/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Harvard Student’s Suicide as a Case Study Date: 30/04/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Attention Deficit Drugs Date: 02/05/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Attention Deficit Drugs Date: 14/05/2013 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: It's finals week: Do you know what your teen is taking to study so hard? Date: 21/05/2013 Newspaper: Los Angeles TimesTitle: It's finals week: Do you know what your teen is taking to study so hard? Date: 21/05/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: No Link Seen Between Child Stimulant Use and Later Drug Abuse Date: 29/05/2013 Newspaper: USA Today Title: Shopping for drugs online carries risks Date: 06/06/2013 Newspaper: New York PostTitle: College-kid Rx crackdown Date: 14/06/2013 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: Sen. Chuck Schumer: Help stop Adderall abuse on campus Date: 16/06/2013 Newspaper: USA Today Title: Adderall does not teach you calculus' Date: 20/06/2013 Newspaper: The Wall Street Journal Title: ADHD Drugs Don't Boost Kids' Grades Date: 08/07/2013 Newspaper: USA Today Title: ‘That’s as Bad as It Gets’ Date: 25/07/2013 Newspaper: New York Post Title: FIU fraternity suspended for selling drugs, posting nude photos of girls on Facebook Date: 22/08/2013 Newspaper: New York Post Title: Weird but true Date: 28/08/2013 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: New student fashion trend: The underbutt shorts outbreakDate: 10/09/2013 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: ‘Study Buddy’ maker says nutrition is at root of attention problemsDate: 01/10/2013 Newspaper: The Los Angeles TimesTitle: Torment Saint' illuminates the troubled world of Elliott SmithDate: 03/10/2013 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: Forget the meds and special schools: The best cure for my son’s learning issues is time offDate: 07/10/2013 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Students tweet about Adderall. A lotDate: 25/11/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: The Selling of Attention Deficit DisorderDate: 14/12/2013 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Adderall and AcademicsDate: 07/02/2014 Newspaper: The Wall Street JournalTitle: Are Schools Asking to Drug Kids for Better Test Scores?Date: 21/02/2014 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: How We Diagnose and Treat A.D.H.D.Date: 04/03/2014 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: SAT changes: The overhaul is overdueDate: 09/03/2014 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Report Says Medication Use Is Rising for Adults With Attention DisorderDate: 12/03/2014 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: More adults taking ADHD medications, study findsDate: 14/03/2014 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: The Antidepressant GenerationDate: 17/04/2014 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: Final exam question: Is it cheating to borrow some Ritalin?Date: 05/05/2014 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: 1 in 5 Ivy Leaguers at an undisclosed school report ADHD drug misuseDate: 05/05/2014 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Anxiety in TeenagersDate: 05/07/2014 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Adderall abuse, auto-flush toilets & other things students want to trashDate: 23/07/2014 Newspaper: The Wall Street JournalTitle: Book Review: 'The Organized Mind' by Daniel J. LevitinDate: 15/08/2014 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: A $56.5 Million Settlement for Adderall False ClaimsDate: 24/09/2014 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D.Date: 31/10/2014 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Survey shows 1 in 5 college students abuse prescription stimulantsDate: 19/11/2014 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: The Quad Report: Casual contraband, pizza change & 3 'Princess Bride' tweetsDate: 20/11/2014 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: Princeton student arrested for picking up package of ecstasy; thousands of dollars in other drugs found on him and in dorm Date: 08/01/2015 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Justices sock Obama administration on drug deportations Date: 14/01/2015 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Not the Usual College Party (This One’s Sober)Date: 27/02/2015 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Viewpoint: The time has come to end fratsDate: 22/03/2015 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Workers Seeking Productivity in a Pill Are Abusing A.D.H.D. DrugsDate: 18/04/2015 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Using Adderall to Get Ahead, Not to Fight A.D.H.D.Date: 21/04/2015 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Popping drugs for workplace productivity a terrible ideaDate: 24/04/2015 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: A Son of Football Calls His MotherDate: 26/04/2015 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: America's love affair with legal amphetamine: ColumnDate: 12/05/2015 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: Still more questions than answers about how to treat ADHDDate: 01/06/2015 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: What Doctors Know: New survey offers inside look at risky behavior among today's teensDate: 03/06/2015 Newspaper: New York PostTitle: Why more white-collar workers are killing themselves, literallyDate: 01/07/2015 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Teens charged with selling drugs out of Park Ridge homeDate: 02/07/2015 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: ‘South on Highland’ is funny, critical twist on addiction story: book reviewDate: 14/07/2015 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Today’s Exhausted SuperkidsDate: 29/07/2015 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: College students most likely to try stimulants near exams, booze and pot in the summerDate: 27/08/2015 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Stevenson students boast their scientific credentialsDate: 12/10/2015 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, Oct. 29-Nov. 4, 2015Date: 28/10/2015 Newspaper: The Washington PostTitle: ‘Smart drugs’ are here — should college students be allowed to use themDate: 03/11/2015 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Pot tops cigarettes among high school seniorsDate: 16/12/2015 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Popping pills: Examining the use of 'study drugs' during finalsDate: 16/12/2015 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: Time magazine culture editor Sam Lansky reveals his wild days in new memoir 'The Gilded Razor'Date: 14/01/2016 Newspaper: The Los Angeles TimesTitle: For 'Prescription Thugs' filmmaker, drug abuse hit close to homeDate: 22/01/2016 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Cop tells parents to be vigilant about potential teen drug useDate: 18/03/2016 Newspaper: The Los Angeles TimesTitle: ‘It doesn’t stay dark forever’: The impact and effects of suicideDate: 21/03/2016 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Can Nicotine Be Good for You?Date: 05/03/2016 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: Pressure to be accepted into elite colleges is crushing our kidsDate: 02/05/2016 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: In College Essays About Money, Echoes of Parents’ AttitudesDate: 13/05/2016 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: What Doctors Know: New survey offers inside look at risky behavior among today's teensDate: 03/06/2016 Newspaper: The Los Angeles TimesTitle: Wednesday's TV highlights: Pearl Harbor remembered and moreDate: 06/06/2016 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Not doing it: Fewer high school kids are having sexDate: 09/06/2016 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: Teens today are having less sex, drinking and using drugs less often, CDC survey saysDate: 09/06/2016 Newspaper: New York PostTitle: Xanax is ruining people’s livesDate: 09/06/2016 Newspaper: New York PostTitle: Teens today are boring and not doing drugs or having sexDate: 10/06/2016 Newspaper: The Los Angeles TimesTitle: Teens today are boring and not doing drugs or having sexDate: 12/06/2016 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Parents raise concerns about drug use in District 225 schoolsDate: 09/08/2016 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Overselling A.D.H.D.: A New Book Exposes Big Pharma’s RoleDate: 22/08/2016 Newspaper: The Wall Street JournalTitle: The Ritalin GenerationDate: 11/09/2016 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Generation AdderallDate: 12/10/2016 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Secret Service tries to boost its ranks amid unrelenting demandsDate: 23/10/2016 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: The 10.16.16 IssueDate: 28/10/2016 Newspaper: The Los Angeles TimesTitle: Teens are cutting back on drugs, alcohol, smoking and even electronic cigarettes, study findsDate: 12/12/2016 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: QB Dwayne Lawson can't sign with Illinois yet while working on gradesDate: 01/02/2017 Newspaper: The Los Angeles TimesTitle: The age of AdderallDate: 14/04/2017 Newspaper: The Los Angeles TimesTitle: School start times: Teen health should be priorityDate: 19/07/2017 Newspaper: Daily NewsTitle: New York City’s opioid crisis seeps into public schools as drug counselors see uptick in student addictsDate: 22/07/2017 Newspaper: The Los Angeles TimesTitle: Student Advisory Board: Year in reviewDate: 28/07/2017 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Opioids on the QuadDate: 30/10/2017 Newspaper: The New York TimesTitle: Young Women Are Using A.D.H.D. Drugs in Greater Numbers, C.D.C. ReportsDate: 18/01/2018 Newspaper: Chicago TribuneTitle: Survey: 70% of Naperville teens stressed, 50% don’t talk about itDate: 31/01/2018 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: Young Women Are Using A.D.H.D. Drugs in Greater Numbers, C.D.C. ReportsDate: 23/02/2018 Newspaper: The Los Angeles TimesTitle: Friday's TV highlights: 'Taken' on NBCDate: 15/03/2018 Newspaper: New York PostTitle: Who gets to decide whether it’s medicine or drug abuse?Date: 29/03/2018 Newspaper: USA TodayTitle: The ultimate guide to understandind teen slangDate: 10/08/2018
Description Protocol Data

Description

The visualization displays the quantity of the articles that talk about Adderall and students in each month during a timespan that goes from January 2012 to November 2018. What can be instantly perceived by this graph is the change in the quantity of articles about Adderall, represented with rectangles. Moreover, it can be observed how many of those articles are talking about Students, which are highlighted in orange. By hovering each orange rectangle, you get the full info about it on the label that appears on the side of the screen. The grey areas behind the rectangles show the stimulant use by college students and non college students in the same timespan of the articles analysis. It strikes to the attention that news providers were talking about Adderall and Adderall related to college students more in the period before the boom of the stimulants abuse detected from 2015 onward.

example of secondary visualization

To understand the interest of publishers about Adderall, the 10 most circulated newspapers in USA has been selected in Wikipedia. Then, in the research bar of each website it has been put the query “Adderall”, as it is the most common among the students according to the results of the first protocol developed. 1250 articles that mentioned the drug were selected and divided in the ones that were talking about college students (orange) and the ones that were not mentioning that topic (blue). Based on the time of publication and obtained data, the visualization was built in Adobe Illustrator.

Protocol

example of protocol

Data

Data Source: Articles from the following Newspapers
Timestamp: Jan 2012-Nov 2018
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The dataset was created starting from the official pages of the top ten newspaper in US in order of circulation. Inside of these were searched all the articles related to Adderall from 2012 to 2018 that were categorized in order to know which were talking about students and which not. The dataset shows all of these articles, the journal in which they were posted, their dates and their topic, and for those that have connections with the academic world it gives the link to the article.