Mystery Actress Divulges Adderall Addiction

An anonymous Hollywood actress has penned an open letter to xojane.com to say that she is finally kicking her long-standing addiction to Adderall—and credits pill addict blogger Cat Marnell for inspiring her to quit. "Everyone around me is tweaked out of their minds, but I just flushed my pills down the toilet," declares the unknown starlet, who largely blames the medical community for the Adderall "epidemic." She began using the drug in 2008 when it was prescribed to her by a doctor, who was also charging her $2,000 per session. "It’s like getting me hooked on what is considered the socially acceptable, totally legal version of cocaine wasn’t enough for him," she writes. "He had to financially screw me, too. And thanks to medical jokes like him, everyone in this city is tweaked out of their brains on the stuff." The actress also admits that her use of the stimulant had wrecked her social life and was beginning to do the same to her career. "I was attracting the wrong men and creating dumb controversy," she writes. "Not on like a Lohan level, but flirting with it. I wouldn’t say I was a total trainwreck, but you could definitely hear the rumbling." Although she had been tempted to write for xoJane before about the dangers of Adderall use, she says it wasn't until reading the New York Times feature on Marnell that she decided to come clean, and quit using. "It made me sad," she writes. "It's time to stop. It's time to lead a more mindful existence. This column is dedicated to her. Let's leave it at that."