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Any doctor prescribing these type of medications to children should have their license taken away immediately. Adderall is an amphetamine, and meth is methamphetamine, the two work very similar to each other. Putting a child on this is egregious and is a black eye on our entire society.

We put our 8 yr old on adhd meds last year. We had no choice, it was suggested a year earlier and we tried everything to not do meds: change diet, extra activity, different types of therapy for kids with adhd. Nothing worked, and eventually we had too. The difference was night and day, but he still has a lot of trouble with focus, but the meds make it manageable, and he functions much better at school.

It was also suggested for his older brother, but through diet, exercise, we manage him and he is fine.

I think too many kids who are like my oldest are put on meds when it is not needed; however, there are some who absolutely need it, and when you have one you know. It is not just for convenience, but he was miserable. He knew he was not focusing and just could not control it, and it was taking a very bad toll.

And gateway drug

anyone who does is committing child abuse now and sentencing society to disaster later

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Any doctor prescribing these type of medications to children should have their license taken away immediately. Adderall is an amphetamine, and meth is methamphetamine, the two work very similar to each other. Putting a child on this is egregious and is a black eye on our entire society.

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Bless your heart. This thread is chock full of TD Karens.

Look up the similarities of adderall and meth as far as the way they work in the body. Very similar.

If adderall was beer meth would be hard liquor.

Adderall and other stimulants medicines we use are in the same family but act differently than cocaine or methamphetamine. Primarily on the specific receptors each targets. It doesn’t matter though because once vyvanse stops figuring out ways to keep its patent it will be all anyone gets, but this is in general the way of pharmacology. Drug is found, drug is improved but abused, smart person makes boatload perfecting popular medicine to the safest, most widespread applicable, and and least a abusable extent. Why is everyone so worried about the safety issue? It’s been trialed to the moon and back and it’s safe. Your question should really be if it’s needed

What can you tell me Adderall? The compounds used to create if? Ratios? Blood levels onset times peak levels interactions? The way stimulants work in people who’ actually need them and the pharmacology of how it works? If you can do it accurately and understand it I’ll feel like I should take the time to type out what pure methamphetamine made with rat poising slammed into your veins is different than 20mg of adderall.

Ask someone who has done adderall, meth, and cocaine and then get back to me about which is more similar to what. Also ask them about the similarities in effects (both positive and negative) in meth and adderall.