I know that Adderall, an ADD medicine, is extremely popular as a study aid and etc. on high school and college campuses right now. Adderall is an amphetamine and a stimulant. In a brain with ADD, they actually calm the distractions and enable the person to focus. In a brain without ADD, they act completely as stimulants. A high-cost prescription No-Doz, if you will.
What amazes me is how much of it is apparently available. Adderall (and other narcotics) is a federally controlled substance. which means the prescriptions are more tightly supervised in terms of number and timing. No refills are possible; no phone-ins are possible. Each prescription must be handwritten by your doctor. What that means is that there are an awful lot of people lying about their symptoms monthly to doctors in order to get this drug to sell it secondhand.
I take ADD drugs because I have ADD, and I have been caught a few times without my medicine for a few days because of overlapping state and federal regulations. You have to really keep up with it in order to keep your meds on the proper schedule. So not only is this medically dangerous for people without ADD, it's a bit difficult to do.
And yet abuse is apparently rampant. Clearly, it's not tightly enough controlled even yet.
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I know that Adderall, an ADD medicine, is extremely popular as a study aid and etc. on high school and college campuses right now. Adderall is an amphetamine and a stimulant. In a brain with ADD, they actually calm the distractions and enable the person to focus. In a brain without ADD, they act completely as stimulants. A high-cost prescription No-Doz, if you will.
What amazes me is how much of it is apparently available. Adderall (and other narcotics) is a federally controlled substance. which means the prescriptions are more tightly supervised in terms of number and timing. No refills are possible; no phone-ins are possible. Each prescription must be handwritten by your doctor. What that means is that there are an awful lot of people lying about their symptoms monthly to doctors in order to get this drug to sell it secondhand.
I take ADD drugs because I have ADD, and I have been caught a few times without my medicine for a few days because of overlapping state and federal regulations. You have to really keep up with it in order to keep your meds on the proper schedule. So not only is this medically dangerous for people without ADD, it's a bit difficult to do.
And yet abuse is apparently rampant. Clearly, it's not tightly enough controlled even yet.
December 3, 2009 - 9:23amThis Comment
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