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.

Folks with ADHD don't respond to speed the same way as other people, they tend to have very high tolerances and don't really show signs of intoxication (like the general population would) unless they've taken quite heroic doses.

Maybe, but I doubt it's entirely black and white. I think it would impair some ADHDers, but I don't know what the numbers are.

Thanks all, my son (12) is having major difficulties learning at school, primarily because he can't pay attention well enough to follow lectures. Was hoping some of yall had positive stories. Medicating is pretty scary to me, but we might just have to try at this point.

In what manner do you believe it could cause impairment? I could see intoxication leading to impaired judgment, but someone taking it as prescribed wouldn't be dosed heavily enough to be intoxicated. A therapeutic dose is intended to be too little to cause intoxication in the patient, but additionally taking it daily would typically cause a degree of tolerance.

I think you're right that it's not entirely black and white, but at the same time if everyone involved is doing their job properly cases where people are genuinely impaired should be rare.

Increased heart rate, anxiety, irritability, insomnia.


Well, if everybody does their job properly - including the driver - then that might be correct, but in the real world it may be another matter. Still, to put it into context, amphetamines aren't the only thing that can mess with the ability to drive, yet society tolerates them. It's a shame there isn't better public transport. That and other matters put undue pressure on people to drive whether it's safe or not.