re: Is Adderall the new Opioid?

you don't get tired and can stay up later to drink, it's not some crazy experience

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I've heard about people using Adderall with booze, but having never used that combination myself, I don't know what the effect is.

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I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 11. It wasn't just a matter of me going to a doctor, my parents telling him/her that I am hyperactive, he gives you a form with some questions, evaluate the form and then decides right there that the kid has ADD (I had a doctor who retired and when I switched doctors I asked if he needed my files from the neurologist. He told me, that wouldn't be necessary, he just needed me to fill out a one page form. And I remember someone saying that their child didn't go to a neurologist, they just went to the doctor I switched to and he "diagnosed" her child with ADD after reading the form).

At the time ritalin was the common ADHD medication. After taking Adderall for a little while in HS I stopped, just because I wasn't as social as I was without it. It did affect my grades. It wasn't until the Summer after my first semester when I decided I needed to get my shite together, stop worrying about who was doing what and what was going on, etc outside of school and I decided to started taking Adderall again and it helped. I could actually concentrate. Read without having to read a sentence 3 or 4 times before I actually pay attention to what it was sayung..

Anyway, I posted all of that to say.. I still take it every day and I do not drink. Every once in awhile, I might go somewhere and have a drink, but with adderall in my system, if I drink one drink and stop, it makes me really tired and it's not worth it IMO.