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_refugee_  ·  3913 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Young Women Increasingly Turn To ADHD Drugs : Shots - Health News : NPR

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  ·  3912 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_  ·  3912 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  ·  3913 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_  ·  3913 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.