The student’s use of popular study medications led to a heart attack at age 22.

Many students can identify with the challenges of managing a full social life, studying for tests, and working through the night.

With the exception of even more potent stimulants, caffeine is frequently your best friend during stressful times because it is the only thing that can keep you awake. This woman used caffeine to power her study sessions.

Mandi Masterpole described how, in order to get through college, she took prescription medicines for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), using them as “study drugs” to combat exhaustion.

She revealed that when she was just 17, she took drugs like Adderall and Ritalin, but when she entered college to become a mortician, she found herself using them every day.

Mandi developed an addiction to what she was informed was “legal speed” as a student in order to get through her coursework and childcare jobs, as well as to get through late-night parties.

“I remember my eyes lighting up, the colors seemed to be brighter,” the New Jersey native stated when talking about how the stimulants made her feel. It all appeared to be bright.

 

A woman who was nearly decapitated, raped, and disemboweled during a horrifying attack in South Africa is featured in a true crime podcast thirty years after the incident.

Before being discovered battered to death at a music festival, a 24-year-old woman sent a string of terrifying messages.