How Is Adderall Addictive if Your Suppose to Take It Everyday?
Question by Nate: How is adderall addictive if your suppose to take it everyday?
Why do people say its addictive if your suppose to take it everyday and never get off?????
it makes no sense.
Best answer:
Answer by George
Put simply, Adderall has a high POTENTIAL for abuse and CAN be addictive.
When Adderall (and Adderall XR) is prescribed orally for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (inattentive type, hyperactive type, or combined type); and/or narcolepsy, and taken properly, in the proper dosages, for the legitimate conditions, addiction is rare.
In relatively rare circumstance, Adderall (and Adderall XR) is prescribed “off-label” to treat other conditions (e.g refractionary depression; in conjunction with other medication to treat certain types of depression or social anxiety disorder or catatonic depression or headaches or types of neuroses, or in combination with pain medications to work synergistically and to help with side effects, or CFIDS), the potential for “addiction” may be greater.
Usually the “addiction” is psychological.
If taken appropriately “daily” for legitimate ADHD, addiction is rare. The reason for daily, regular use is justified by the fact that ADHD—and ADHD symptoms affect all aspects of life–school, work, home, relationships, family life.
However, it might be a good idea to discuss with your doctor (or other licensed prescribing practitioner) who prescribed you the medication) to discuss the need to take the medication “daily”, or the need to take it every “single day”, or the need to take the “full total number of pills” every single day, or even what are known as “Adderall holidays”, or “psychostimulant holidays”. These “holidays” refer to periods during which you go without taking the drug (e.g. weekends in which you don’t have to study or work , or school vacations, or periods of 2 or more days.
The purpose of this is to: 1) see how you function without the drug; 2) reduce tolerance; and 3) even see if you could go with a lower dosage.
However, you need to discuss this with your prescribing doctor/P.A./N.P.
Answer by AbeLincolnParty
Adderall is amphetamine, a highly addictive drug that has been around since the 1930’s.
Too many people are put on this stuff, and it is not medicine, it is the sorcery of greed.
A few years back Phen-Fen was all the rage, the drug combination flying off the shelf for a couple of years, but finally enough doctors noticed a problem that the FDA had to act. It tended to damage heart valves and cause pulmonary hypertension, the worst kind to treat.
I totally expect this young generation growing up on this stuff to mostly be dead before 55 years of age, many before that.