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Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer
#10925204 - 08/24/09 08:39 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner, Ap Medical Writer Mon Aug 24, 6:16 am ET
CHICAGO – Calls to poison control centers about teens abusing attention-deficit drugs soared 76 percent over eight years, sobering evidence about the dangerous consequences of prescription misuse, a study shows.
The calls were from worried parents, emergency room doctors and others seeking advice on how to deal with the problem, which can be deadly. Four deaths were among cases evaluated in the study.
Kids taking ADHD drugs to get high or increase alertness may not realize that misuse of the drugs can cause serious, sometimes life-threatening symptoms, including agitation, rapid heartbeat, extremely high blood pressure.
"They say, 'It's FDA approved, how dangerous could it be?'" said Steve Pasierb, head of The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, based in New York.
In the study, researchers from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center evaluated 1998-2005 data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers. During that time, nationwide calls related to teen abuse of ADHD drugs, specifically stimulants, increased from 330 to 581 yearly, and there were four deaths. Overall, 42 percent of teens involved had moderate to severe side-effects and most ended up getting emergency-room treatment.
The true number of teen abusers who have bad side effects is likely much higher, because many cases don't result in calls to poison control centers, said study author Dr. Randall Bond, medical director of the hospital's Drug and Poison Information Center.
The surge, from 1998 to 2005, outpaced calls for teen substance abuse generally. It also paralleled an 86 percent rise in ADHD medicine prescriptions for kids aged 10 to 19, from about 4 million to nearly 8 million during that time.
"It's more bad news on an entrenched problem," Pasierb said. His nonprofit group was not involved in the study. Its own research suggests that about 19 percent of teens have abused prescription drugs including medicine for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Government-sponsored surveys suggest that teen abuse of stimulants including ADHD drugs has declined in recent years.
The new study was for release Monday in the August edition of Pediatrics.
Mark Stein, a psychiatry professor and ADHD expert at University of Illinois at Chicago, said abuse typically involves crushing and snorting the pills, which speeds up the effects and can produce a buzz or sense of euphoria — along with dangerous side effects.
Kids who develop serious side effects should be taken to the emergency room, where sedatives can be used to treat the problem, Stein said.
The study lacks information on whether abusers were teens with ADHD, but anecdotal evidence suggests many are not.
Stein said the study should not deter use of ADHD drugs in teens who really need them, particularly since there's evidence that kids with ADHD who don't get medication are at risk for abusing illicit drugs.
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: motaman]
#10925278 - 08/24/09 09:02 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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And this surprises who?
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: Dr.Myco87]
#10925463 - 08/24/09 09:51 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hopefully it surprises the parents that feed this legal crack to their children.
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: suburbanned]
#10925525 - 08/24/09 10:07 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Amphetamine is amphetamine. It doesn't matter if its linguistically sanctioned as "ADHD Medication"
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#10925579 - 08/24/09 10:16 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've been diagnosed with adhd for 20+ years. I abused my ritalin. I bought and abused others ritalin. Now at 31 looking at nursing school and all the attention needed, I am seriously considering getting on adderall at least until I'm out of school. Even if they have abused before, adhd people need this when attention is demanded of them.
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: smokescreen]
#10925930 - 08/24/09 11:14 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Dam im on lunch from work right now and i really could use some adderall! lol day would be over before i know it.
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: Dudeyourgone]
#10926113 - 08/24/09 11:35 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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I know some parents who don't discipline their kids at all, and not surprisingly, they are getting diagnosed with ADD one by one. The sad thing is they are being fed amphetamines; a chemical cure to a social problem, an easy way out.
I am sure there are legitimate cases where chemical imbalances need to be fixed with amps. However, when diagnosing cases, giving amphetamines should be a last resort - only when family therapy and proper parenting have failed.
It's too bad there is money to be made from curing the symptoms of a problem, but not the cause...
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: Green_T]
#10926320 - 08/24/09 12:09 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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wow people ADHD is another way for this fucked up world to diagnose you with a disease.. to take your money for medication and strip you from reality.. adhd is a scam like most everything else in this so called medical industry.. next time the doctor say your depressed or ADD or ADHD or any other so called mental disease.. slap him in the face and then go outside.. get outta your house.. get away from TV.. get away from computer. and use your BRAIN like it was made for.. you will feel allot better. are parents grandparents and all of our kin from the past have never used any of these drugs.. they must have done OK if your alive.
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: MJ_Harvester]
#10926354 - 08/24/09 12:15 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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I think it is over diagnosed. But its not a "total scam"
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: MJ_Harvester]
#10926373 - 08/24/09 12:18 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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MJ_Harvester said: wow people ADHD is another way for this fucked up world to diagnose you with a disease.. to take your money for medication and strip you from reality.. adhd is a scam like most everything else in this so called medical industry.. next time the doctor say your depressed or ADD or ADHD or any other so called mental disease.. slap him in the face and then go outside.. get outta your house.. get away from TV.. get away from computer. and use your BRAIN like it was made for.. you will feel allot better. are parents grandparents and all of our kin from the past have never used any of these drugs.. they must have done OK if your alive.
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: MJ_Harvester]
#10926378 - 08/24/09 12:18 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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i (ab)used 80-120 mg of prescription amphetamine a day, nasally and orally for about a year and a half.
freaked out one day and thought it was a heart attack.
had anxiety ever since. freaked out totally sober thinking i was having another heart attack.
went to the E.R. where i was told i was fine and just having a panic attack.
and now i take 2 mg of xanax every day (prescribed) just to feel normal. and sometimes THAT doesn't even work and i'll still freak out. i work in a hospital, though, and there have been times i felt on the brink of death (even with the xanax): chest hurting, left arm aching and weak, hard to breathe, etc....when feeling like that, i let any random hot nurse listen to my heart and hook me up to one of those blood pressure/pulse machines and they're like "sounds fine. looks fine."
anxiety is a bitch.
oh yeah anyway....long story short: fuck adderall! even if it did end up getting me a benzo scrip. haha
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: SunshineDaydream] 1
#10926410 - 08/24/09 12:24 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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SunshineDaydream said: i (ab)used 80-120 mg of prescription amphetamine a day, nasally and orally for about a year and a half.
freaked out one day and thought it was a heart attack.
had anxiety ever since. freaked out totally sober thinking i was having another heart attack.
went to the E.R. where i was told i was fine and just having a panic attack.
and now i take 2 mg of xanax every day (prescribed) just to feel normal. and sometimes THAT doesn't even work and i'll still freak out. i work in a hospital, though, and there have been times i felt on the brink of death (even with the xanax): chest hurting, left arm aching and weak, hard to breathe, etc....when feeling like that, i let any random hot nurse listen to my heart and hook me up to one of those blood pressure/pulse machines and they're like "sounds fine. looks fine."
anxiety is a bitch.
oh yeah anyway....long story short: fuck adderall! even if it did end up getting me a benzo scrip. haha
I'm sure it can be a bitch but medicine will not fix it!!! i can grantee that only you can fix it its all in your head.. get away from you life spend about 2 Weeks in the wood BY YOURSELF not a campsite in the middle of no were. no xanex no pot no mushys just you and your sober brain. you will come back feallin better then you did when you was a baby.. anxiety is usually a sign of way to much shit happening in your life... get away from it.. just for a bit.. you will feel better
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: MJ_Harvester]
#10927118 - 08/24/09 02:17 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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I got the same probs, I need to go to the woods with Sunshine D, but I'm taking some fresh aborts and some B+!!
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: suburbanned]
#10927976 - 08/24/09 04:36 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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suburbantoker said: Hopefully it surprises the parents that feed this legal crack to their children.
I agree, I didn't think about all the ignorant idiots who don't actually know that the shit they feed there kids is speed. I also think that these meds are needed SOMEtimes, but that it is way over prescribed. I am ADHD but didn't start taking any meds till I was 21 because my parents knew better. They told me that once I started college that I could start on meds if I wanted to and I did but now I only take my adderall maybe twice a week. Over the years I have gotten to get used to my short attention span and try to compensate by working harder, though it does help when going through specifially hard times at school.
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: Dr.Myco87] 1
#10928793 - 08/24/09 06:48 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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suburbantoker said: Hopefully it surprises the parents that feed this legal crack to their children.
I agree, I didn't think about all the ignorant idiots who don't actually know that the shit they feed there kids is speed. I also think that these meds are needed SOMEtimes, but that it is way over prescribed. I am ADHD but didn't start taking any meds till I was 21 because my parents knew better. They told me that once I started college that I could start on meds if I wanted to and I did but now I only take my adderall maybe twice a week. Over the years I have gotten to get used to my short attention span and try to compensate by working harder, though it does help when going through specifially hard times at school.
I'm sorry but you don't have ADHD its an imaginary thing that the doctors get money from you for... yes there are real sicknesses out there mental and physically but like i said ADD ADHD depression etc and there are many more just smoked to much today. these are all a figment of our doctors imaginations, to keep up under control and have us give them money..
you notice we are over a year in recession and the only building you see with the money for construction is casinos and hospitals... 2 of the true daemons to this earth... one can give you a chance to win big or loose your money the other tell you that you will never be normal without taking this pill .. Well guess what you are normal.. that's the way you were made... so why take a pill to change that... be who you are and if you are a person that cant concentrate very well that's who you are don't take drugs to find that... if you are a person that is depressed why take medicine?? to help you forget.. just like alcohol weed shroom aderal or any other drug out there you will forget for a short time but it all comes back.. Face your reality with who you are not with what you can shove down your throat, up your nose, or in your arm. you are who you are for a reason..
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Re: Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer [Re: MJ_Harvester]
#10929003 - 08/24/09 07:15 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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MJ_Harvester said:
I'm sorry but you don't have ADHD its an imaginary thing that the doctors get money from you for... yes there are real sicknesses out there mental and physically but like i said ADD ADHD depression etc and there are many more just smoked to much today. these are all a figment of our doctors imaginations, to keep up under control and have us give them money..
you notice we are over a year in recession and the only building you see with the money for construction is casinos and hospitals... 2 of the true daemons to this earth... one can give you a chance to win big or loose your money the other tell you that you will never be normal without taking this pill ..
yes because the hospital is only there to feed you pills and make money, not help in emergencies
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