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b_b  ·  3910 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Young Women Increasingly Turn To ADHD Drugs : Shots - Health News : NPR

Yeah, but it sure does help when you're hungover as fuck, and you need to get to drinking again, like, for example, at a weekend long bachelor party. Shit's a godsend in that environment. (But let's be real; adderal is just another name for methamphetamine. Any attempt by drug manufacturers to call it anything else is super dishonest. They only call it adderal, because saying that they're giving your kids the stuff that Jesse Pinkman sells wouldn't be quite so good for the bottom line, would it?)





_refugee_  ·  3910 days ago  ·  link  ·  

b, I don't know if I would have graduated college without it to be honest. My addiction happened for a reason. my life was very ugly at the time. Yes I was addicted to adderal and it was, ultimately, terrible, but at the time it also helped me get through. Like, adderal was frankly the least of my problems by far when i was in college. It was really after college when I was like, ugly-hooked on it that was bad.

I am very ambivalent about adderal even today. using the word in the true sense of "torn."

kleinbl00  ·  3909 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dated a girl for a long time whose dad was a psychoanalyst (and whose grandfather was a psychoanalyst). Dad had a standing prescription from grandpa for amphetamine... and another for thorazine when he needed to come down.

That's one way to get through medical school.

_refugee_  ·  3909 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ugh. Apparently you can also counteract the alertness of adderal with alcohol, I imagine it would take a lot though. Not interested in trying. Bet that fucks you up a lot worse than 4Loko ever did.

b_b  ·  3910 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I am very ambivalent about adderal even today. using the word in the true sense of "torn."

Shit's a straight up hard drug. Like I said, it is literally an amphetamine. It's Breaking Bad, brought to you by Big Pharma. Were I a parent, I'd be equally likely to let my kid toot lines of blow as adderal. That is, fat chance.

_refugee_  ·  3910 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't feel I have the bandwidth to say "ADD is made up and learn to pay attention fuckers!" That's why I'm torn. Or one of the reasons anyway.