re: Would you allow you child to be put on Adderall/Vyvanse at 8-10 years of age?

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it’s pretty damn hard to feel like you’re decision boils down to not helping him reach his potential by using drugs, or make him use drugs.

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That is hard, but if he needs the drugs, his potential is probably not in a traditional classroom. That’s not a put down- maybe tangible skills are his thing and he should just be tutored enough to work towards a GED.

From reading the comments it looks like a lot of people have very different situations. Evaluate and make your own decisions, don't let other people's situations dictate what you ultimately decide.

My son is in 5th grade and has been on some form of medication since 2nd grade. He has severe ADD and is essentially non-functional in academic settings without medicine. We held out putting him on medication for 2 years then finally broke down after everything else failed.

He is on a low dose of Adzenzys that he only takes on school days. His grades aren't good, but we recognize the danger of these types of drugs and are trying to get him to a level where he is able to simply focus enough to complete most of his work. That's it.

I used to always be against medication too. I think a lot of parents see them as a cure-all, which they are NOT intended to be. Combined with other therapies, tools, etc, it can be a great help for your kid.

I’ve never taken it why would I let my kid do it... would try therapy for my kid

I notice quite a few people saying they only give it in school days. Two questions: So I assume it’s not like an SSRI that has to build up in your system for it to be effective? Two, one of the “educators” told us not to do that bc they say something like 60% of learning occurs outside the classroom. I balked on that especially being how that would seem to me the best time to learn to cope with a learning disability without using meds.

No way in hell. For all you young bucks out there, that crap is horrible, yes horrible for your heart. You are young now and don't feel it but later in in life it will affect you. It's a bad drug when taken correctly and a horrible drug when it's misused.

Used to put them under my tongue and spit them out in the morning. shite sucks. And if one doesn’t “work” the doc is gonna push a different brand in your arse

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Used to put them under my tongue and spit them out in the morning. shite sucks. And if one doesn’t “work” the doc is gonna push a different brand in your arse

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They didn't work because you spit them out, dumbfrick.

No I wouldn’t.
I see patients in behavioral health hospitals who started with these meds as children and eventually became amphetamine abusers who have drug induced psychosis. I know not all will end up that way, but too many do.

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Would you allow you child to be put on Adderall/Vyvanse at 8-10 years of age?

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I would absolutely put my kid on adderall and then steal his meds

No. No no. From experience, no.