Author: indigochild
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:40 am
| travispnorton wrote: |
| I’m a good arguer, too. Okay, I do believe that there are some people in the world that legitimately can benefit from the use of amphetamines, which by the way are not narcotics, they’re simply amphetamines, which, yes are Schedule II controlled substances. Traditionally the term ‘narcotic’ is reserved for chemicals derived from the opium poppy and synthetic analogs of these opiates. There is no contradiction pharmacologically between amphetamines and buprenorphine, as in they are completely safe to take together. For people whose benefits outweigh risks (which are pretty great with amphetamines) the cocktail is completely fine. I absolutely believe that amphetamines are WAYYYY over prescribed, however, and that a large percent of the people who are prescribed them can, in fact, function just fine without them. For addicts I believe this tenfold. I believe ADHD is wayyy over diagnosed in that many people who are diagnosed as having ADHD, ESPECIALLY after being newly clean (even up to two years) simply DO NOT have ADHD. It’s crazy to me that someone can live 20 years never having been diagnosed with ADHD, have made it through grade school, middle school and high school, maybe even college, have been using chemicals to the point that they need an opioid replacement therapy, then shortly after they clean up at an age of 25+ they are diagnosed with ADHD and are given some new (or old) upper drug. Amphetamines can be a godsend for certain populations, no doubt about it, but typically addicts are not in that population that does really well on amphetamines. Amphetamines DO cause euphoria, they DO cause concentrated attention, alertness and wakefulness. I have seen, too, that amphetamines when taken ‘legitimately’ by ‘recovering addicts’ have a way of bringing out addict behaviors such as justifying, rationalizing and straight-out lying. It’s a slippery slope, amphetamines. Be careful everyone! This has been a public service announcement from Travis Norton.. |
i just have to ‘second’ this post and give it my blessing(whatever that means LOL)- i too have seen MANY addicts clean up and mysteriously have ADHD- my pharmacist told me they are done making ADDERALL IR for the remainder of the year. this always struck me as a funny name, ADD-YER-ALL! BE ALL U CAN BE kids, and adults(of course).
Side note:
there is a quack in our area; he writes -180 oxycodone 30 IR, 120 oxycodone 15 IR Breakthru, of course, also ADDERALL 30IR #90 and of course XANAX 2mg for everyone anxiety! i never heard a variation of scripts, same scripts, no mri, cheese only. lasted a whole 3 months before the DEA busted thru, kicked everyone out, off the sidewalk! LOL, didn’t even have a sign yet! it’s so nice hes been gone fur 3 months!