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Byline: Judith Newman
A growing number of women in Hollywood are abusing the ADD drug Adderall in their quest to be thin. But along with the rapid weight loss, they may be gaining a dangerous addiction.
On the patio of the Sunset Tower Hotel overlooking the Hollywood Hills, on the kind of sun-blinded afternoon Raymond Chandler made famous, Amanda F.* and I are eating. Well, one of us is eating. And it's not Amanda. "I took my Adderall about an hour before I got here," says the 45-year-old television producer as she picks at her crab salad. "If I hadn't taken it, I would have inhaled the table."
Amanda has been diagnosed with adult attention ...