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I don't know what to tell you then. About a billion studies since have said that people with ADHD who use their prescription as directed will not get addicted. I've taken it every day for a month and then forgotten it. I regularly forget it before I leave for work so I keep a spare bottle in my purse with a single dose or two just in case.
I think it's easier for a person with an addiction to get a diagnosis and then abuse it than it is for a person with ADHD to get addicted to the medicine. But also it doesn't do any of those things for me that would get me addicted; I'm told it causes euphoria in people. I'm told it causes high energy. I'm told it's basically a party drug! I can take it and all it does is make me focus on stuff I'm supposed to instead of whatever I happen to focus on.
As for the opiate thing, I've been prescribed them for pain and I hate how they make me feel. My pain has to be truly god awful for me to actually take one.
So I guess what I'm saying is obviously your experience isn't invalid but I disagree on your takeaway. (Wish I replied after I woke up and took my meds so this answer wouldn't be a billion words long and meandering lol)
You made a few points. I will try to address them all, please point out if I missed any.
2)If people with ADHD are immune to getting high from it, that caveat of "at the reccomended dose" to prevent addiction wouldn't need to be applied. The only drugs people go ham on are the ones that get you high. Therefore, it is known by the medical community that recreational levels of these drugs do in fact get people with ADHD high.
Most people diagnosed with ADHD were diagnosed as children. Its highly doubtful that they were already addicted to adderall and then faked their symptoms to get a prescription.
its a party drug maybe for people who are too young to legally get into venues where actual party drugs exist. Maybe for a DND party. But a real party or venue? No. I understand fent has hit the streets hard, and perhaps that is pushing people who never experienced real party drugs into safer alternatives, as adderall is percieved to be. There may be a generational gap between us on this specific point.
yes, it creates focus in literally everybody who takes it.
I get it, the drug helps many people with ADHD, but the conversation can't only be framed as "people with ADHD can't get high or addicted to it," when the actual people who seek treatment for adderall addiction just so happen to be people who have ADHD. Nobody has ever lost their diagnosis because they got addicted to an addictive drug. I assure you of that.