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Psychostimulant vs Adderall - What's the difference?

psychostimulant | adderall |

As an adjective psychostimulant

is tending to increase mental alertness and awareness.

As a noun psychostimulant

is a drug that acts to temporarily increase mental alertness or awareness.

As a proper noun adderall is

(trademark) a psychostimulant medication containing amphetamine and believed to work by increasing the amount of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain.

psychostimulant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to increase mental alertness and awareness
    • a psychostimulant effect

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drug that acts to temporarily increase mental alertness or awareness

    • Synonyms

    * stimulant

    See also

    * (wikipedia "psychostimulant")

    adderall

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (trademark) A psychostimulant medication containing amphetamine and believed to work by increasing the amount of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain.
  • * "Doctors and the media have helped to create the belief that the best way to treat ADD/ADHD is with stimulant medications, such as Ritalin or Adderall". -- Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child

    • References

  • "Adderall XR prescribing information" . Shire US. March 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-23.
  • "ADDERALL (CII)" (PDF). FDA. March 2007. Retrieved 2009-06-23.