ADHD medication

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Hi everyone, I dont know if this is the right forum for this or if it is allowed, but I was hoping to find out if anyone has experience with adhd medication, particularly as a child/teen, and could share their experience. Thanks as always. Hope everyone is well.

I was put on 60mg of Dexadrine in 1966. I was so wired that they gave me 500mg of Placidyl at night to be able to go to sleep. The Plavidyl lives on in the Song by the Grateful Dead Truckin as "reds"

I have used prescription speed a bit over the years it was useful driving at night cross country and for working overtime. However, if you took it for five days during the week, you would have to crash and detox on the weekends.

Essentially no one questions the monolithic industrial processing of children through the public school system. Components (children) who are not easily processed are designated non-compliant and are medicated to cause less difficulty for those administering the processing system.

One does not have to be harmed by speed. However, it is better to learn how to navigate life than to be adjusted.

It can be tempting to use speed to accomplish tasks. However, it is perhaps healthier to learn how to apply yourself to master these tasks. We homeschooled our children to keep them out of the hands of those who would "process" them.

After years of experience with the medication, I would recommend against it.

Not sure if I have ADHD or not, never wanted to get tested for it in case they tried to park me on dodgy tablets. Certainly I have a defecit of attention at times, but my preferred intervention is to just find safe ways around the difficulties - coping strategies. I don't like this thing that some doctors do, giving somebody a strong tablet and then when there's a bad side effect, add another kind of tablet to the mix.

But if it's affecting the ability to drive, that could be a problem in some parts of the USA where you can't really do anything if you don't drive. Not that driving under the influence of uppers strikes me as a particularly safe option.

Personally I think strong psych meds should never be used except when there's nothing else for it and the risk of not intervening is even more dangerous than the tablets, like suicide or something.