For shifts that go as long as 22 hours a day, the double shots of espressos and consuming a caffeine-laced energy drink is not enough. At USA’s Wall Street, the hub of the American financial services industry, the employees are taking the stimulant route to keep the night lamp burning.

A Wall Street Journal report states how Manhattan’s money street demands as many as 22 hours from one’s day at the job, the bankers and executives are using Adderall and Vyvans, the ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) meds to go through their day.

The report goes on to cite example after example, where early morning flights, meeting with clients, and a “disregard for the policies made against the employees taking dangerously heavy workloads” mean that the professionals are working even 80 to 100 hours a week.

The professionals, to keep up with long hours, resort to medicines that help them focus, as per the WSJ report. It also suggests that these professionals visit the pharmacies, tell the chemist about their issues with ‘focussing’, and get the ADHD drugs, to consume it through snorting.

For many, the rewards are a high-paying job and a position on Wall Street. The report cites a professional saying that consuming the stimulants not only helped him keep up with the workload, but also supposedly gave him an edge against others.

The pursuit of a high-flying career has forced the workhorses of Wall Streets into a race that does not care about the doping rules anymore, and therefore, birthing a dangerous trend that highlights the limits an industry wants to push, just to have its capitalist gears churning 24/7.

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