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Darklight203
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Re: Shortage of ADHD drugs sends parents scrambling [Re: 2jew4u]
#14323613 - 04/20/11 03:34 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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AsAboveSoBelow said: Yeah man, I totally don't even know how the human race got to this point without Adderall and Ritalin
It's not how we got here, but how we can better those in need now. If they are overprescribing, that's a reflection of the drug dealer, not the drug itself.
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AsAboveSoBelow
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Re: Shortage of ADHD drugs sends parents scrambling [Re: Darklight203]
#14323806 - 04/20/11 04:14 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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i was being sarcastic. my point being that the human race seemed to get along fine without ADHD drugs
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Darklight203
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Re: Shortage of ADHD drugs sends parents scrambling [Re: AsAboveSoBelow]
#14326362 - 04/21/11 04:55 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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AsAboveSoBelow said: i was being sarcastic. my point being that the human race seemed to get along fine without ADHD drugs
I'm sorry, but there's, at least to my knowledge, no cure for some diseases and disorders. Some people are really just screwed for life. You think everyone is just pretending so they can get high? The world may have been 'just fine' in your eyes, but there's a lot of people out there that would disagree. People that need these drugs to cope, somewhat normally, in the world. And, in all reality, we have used ADHD drugs. We used herbs and poisons, all to better ourselves. Unless there is a cure, people have to supplement daily to help at all.
-------------------- In ancient times, when demons roamed with man, They hunted, loved and lost, hand in hand, As time went on, the difference between them faded. You couldn't tell anymore, demons and man were related, and some would say the same, but who would like to claim? In time, Gods had even forgot, Demons, too, once love had sought. In times recent I remember, Once I was a man, In my heart I had an ember, I'll relate the best I can but it was snuffed, one distant December. And yet here I stand, no flesh, no bones, no seed or semen, All that's left is this Demon.
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Re: Shortage of ADHD drugs sends parents scrambling [Re: Darklight203] 1
#14327411 - 04/21/11 12:00 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger and put on those pills and didn't like them so I refused to take them. I got by in school and excelled in some areas such as science and english. By the time I got to high school I started smokin weed at first as an intoxicant, but I realized it made me feel more "normal" and less irritable. Some types of weed helped me focus and concentrate more prob due to more dopamine being in the synapse.
Problem with that though is it was a crap shoot whether the cannabanoid ratio was right, it got really expensive with black market tax and all, you cant get better jobs with dirty piss, it's illegal and I have a manufacturing prior now so its not even an option, and eventually I was becoming increasingly addicted and dependent on it. I quit smoking weed over a year ago and I am glad I did because I was going nowhere in life. It made me numb to my own emotions and what I wanted out of life so I wasn't working toward any goals. Doesn't happen to everyone but it happened to me.
Now I am on probation and in college and I got a script for 15mg of adderall IR in the morning and 10 later on. I have been on the same dose for a year and I don't twack on it and most people wouldn't know I took it. I have a calm composure, yet I have a fast mind, and adderall gets me in a giddy, witty, smartass mood which allows me to put up with all the bullshit and excell at it. Granted this is only low doses! If I took a double dose I would be hating it because I don't like the feeling of being overly stimulated. I don't like the feeling of coffee because of the peripheral jitters and its a dirty buzz compared to amph.
I have barely any side effects from it. I get dry mouth so I chew gum and drink lots of water. I can have a crash once the 6 hours pass so I just take L-tyrosine at hour 3, then redose when needed. My habit costs me 15 dollars a month compared to 300 dollars I was spending on weed. I still paint and write poetry so it doesn't kill my creativity(at that dosage). overall its beneficial for me specifically because I am not prone to abusing uppers, but downers are my downfall. Not to mention its legal and my PO cant tell me shit about coming up for amph on a drug test 
I can understand not wanting some children on this stuff, I didn't want myself to be on it till I was an adult in college and made an informed decision. Its kinda like religion in a way..... Anyways If you are against people taking it period and you drink coffee...no one cares what you think. We have to do shit we don't like to get to what we do like in any society. Stimulants happen to make the time go by quicker so we can get to what we truly enjoy. I want to make school, work, and probation shit to go by quick. Then on the odd weekends I will slow time down to a stop with some friends, have a desert adventure, do some art and writing, and be spiritually reborn coming back into the day to day with a bigger grin than a post fuck grin.
Just wanted to show the other side to these drugs. In low doses they are not so evil. the difference between a medicine and poison is dosage.
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Re: Shortage of ADHD drugs sends parents scrambling [Re: utk]
#14327661 - 04/21/11 01:03 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Great post utk. It's really interesting to see in the OP that people don't realize that they are going through amphetamine withdrawals. The same withdrawals that those speedfreaks on the street are going through.
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