How should a doctor take a patient off adderall?

Answer 1

Your answer:

By lessening the quantity (mg) per dosage; however, as it is an amphetamine, there will be some withdrawal effects upon taking less. Yet, this is optimal compared to the severe withdrawal effects from quitting cold turkey.

The answer:

Typically, meth addicts (Adderall is meth as well, essentially) are coerced into rehabilitation clinics for detox to be monitored during withdrawal. Of course, to get one rid of this horrible addiction. So, is the prescription that much different? Maybe to you and them in what "it" is, but to your brain, I don't think so.

That being said, a better question is: Should a doctor put a patient on adderall? I don't think so.

Behaviorist treatments can be a considerably more successful, natural and safe alternative, yet require extreme amounts of discipline on part of the affected (by ADHD, I presume).

Keep in mind that: Amphetamine has been around and considered dangerous for hundreds of years. The US is one of only a few countries that allow it for medical use. Furthermore, the makers of adderall are unaware of future consequences, of the brain, on the affected individual. Lastly, prognostication, on part of pharmaceutical companies, about its safety, is certainly unjustified, if not uncertain, nonetheless.

Be careful. They are cheap to make. Easy to sell and expensive as hell to either you or your insurance company.