(Wall Street Journal) – Many on Wall Street see Adderall and Vyvanse as tools to plow through long hours of tedious work amid high-pressure competition

Images of Wall Street’s rank-and-file blowing cash on illegal drugs and nightlife are well known, with cocaine a favored drug through the 1980s, as portrayed in “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

These days, drugs are more a tool to optimize performance on the job. Especially for entry-level bankers at the analyst and associate level—who work long, tedious hours and fiercely compete for higher-level jobs with big pay days—prescriptions for stimulants such as Adderall and other ADHD drugs have become commonplace. (Read More)