# To what extent is academic "doping" acceptable?

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**Created:** [November 2, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-is-academic-doping-acceptable/703316 "2014-11-02T00:35:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-is-academic-doping-acceptable/703316/21 "2014-11-05T19:39:38Z")

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> [@robert\_columbia](#):
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> I agree. School is about learning, gaining skills, doing research, and demonstrating evidence that you have done that. It’s not about conforming to societal rules. If a non-ADD student illegally takes Adderall, passes all his classes and/or his thesis, but gets caught with the Adderall, he becomes a college graduate with a criminal record. Those do exist.

Or they get caught before they graduate and get expelled. Or have to take a semseter or year off to fight the case. Or can’t continue because they’ve been jailed. It’s hard to guess the risk.

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