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Adderall
Adderall is a brand of psychoactive drug which brings temporary improvements in both mental and physical function. It increases concentration, alertness, libido and cognitive functions of the users. Adderall’s immediate release formulation is used to treat narcolepsy and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
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Is methocarbamol a schedule II drug?
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No, methocarbamol is not scheduled by the DEA in any category. Metaxolone (Skelaxin) isn't either. Carisoprodol (Soma) is the only similar agent that is currently scheduled (Sched IV).
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What types of doctors can prescribe Adderall?
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When my son was in 2nd grade, he was first on Ridilan and then Adderall. They were both prescribed by his pediatrician. For an adult to get on a drug like adderall, they have one that is stimulant free, I forget what it is called but that is generally prescribed by either your PCP or a Psychiatrist, they can write all sorts of anti-depressant drugs and other psychotropic drugs. (drugs that alter the brain's chemistry). If your PCP won't write it, then you may have to get a referral to a psychiatrist depending on your insurance plan. Many family doctor's (Primary Care Physicians) won't write for these types of drugs because it is out of their area of expertise.
What does the pill Adderall look like?
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There are many possible answers depending on what you are reffering to as "the pill."
Generic amphetamine compounds equivilent to the immediate release (IR) formula of Adderall are available as tablets. The generic tablets are manufactured by a number of pharmaceutical companies and therefore all look different. Immediate release Adderall itself (brand name, distributed by Shire) comes in 7 strengths, so whichever one you mean by "the pill" would look like the following:
5mg IR- Either white or blue round tablets with "AD" imprinted on 1 side and "5" on the other
7.5mg IR- Scored, blue, oblong tablet with "AD" imprinted on 1 side and "7.5" on the other
10mg IR- Scored, blue, round tablet with "AD" imprinted on 1 side and "10" on the other
12.5mgIR - Scored, orange, round tablet with "AD" imprinted on 1 side and "12.5" on the other
15mg IR- Scored, orange, oblong tablet with "AD" imprinted on 1 side and "15" on the other
20mg IR- Scored, orange, round tablet with "AD" imprinted on 1 side and "20" on the other
30mg IR- Scored, orange, round tablet with "AD" imprinted on 1 side and "30" on the other
If by "the pill" you were referring to the extended release (XR) capsules, they are currently only available from 1 company (Shire). The XR capsules are available in 6 different strengths, which look like the following:
5mg XR- Blue with clear capsule with "ADDERALL XR" and "5mg" imprinted on it
10mg XR- Blue with transluscent blue capsule with "ADDERALL XR" and "10mg" imprinted on it
15mg XR- White with transluscent blue capsule with "ADDERALL XR" and "15mg" imprinted on it
20mg XR- Orange with orange capsule with "ADDERALL XR" and "20mg" imprinted on it
25mg XR- White with orange capsule with "ADDERALL XR" and "25mg" imprinted on it
30mg XR- Orange with clear capsule with "ADDERALL XR" and "30mg" imprinted on it
How do you treat an addiction to Adderall?
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While on Adderall you normally eat less, drink less water and almost never get the proper nutrients your body needs. After your adderall wears off you should eat a good healthy meal and nutrients such as magnesium and calcium for a healthy nervous system; maybe invest in a good multi-vitamin which most people should take daily anyways. Your best detox is just to get your body back on track as soon as possible with your sleep cycle, food intake and a little time away from it wouldn't hurt. During finals this is hard and most of us, me included get in a poor nutritional state from lack of sleep, nutrients, dehydration and consumption of other stimulants.
Differences between Adderall and Vyvanse euphoria?
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Vyvanse is lisdexamfetamine, while Adderall is dextroamphetamine, aka (a-methylphenethylamine). Vyvanse is a pro-drug for dextroamphetamine, meaning it is only active after you eat it, so there is little to no abuse potential. Basically, Vyvanse is dextroamphetamine bonded with lysine (an essential amino acid). The euphoria experienced with 50mg Vyvanse orally, is comparable to 25mg Adderall orally. However Adderall is active through insufflation (snorting) so I would assume the euphoria would be better on Adderall.
How much adderall should you take with 100mg of seroquel?
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It totally depends on what you are taking it for. 100 mg of seroquel will knock you out if you aren't extremely used to it. The doses of both seroquel and adderall change based on how much you have done in the past, plus what your underlying disorder is. If this is for medical purposes, consult your doctor. If this is for recreational purposes, don't take any more adderall than you would take w/o the seroquel... the seroquel will obviously mitigate some of the effects (as adderall causes more dopamine to be released and seroquel, among other things, antagonizes the d2 receptor).
I currently take 25 mg of seroquel at night and 15 mg of adderall xr in the morning, and the combination is fantastic. But take that with a grain of salt, b/c everyone's physiology is different. In that respect, this question is kind of like "how many lines of coke should you snort with 6 beers?" It can't be answered without a lot more information.
Seroquel mainly antagonizes the d2 receptor of the brain. ADHD which adderall treats mainly has threaputic affects through the d4 receptor which seroquel has minimal affinity. Your seroquel shouldn't affect the effects of adderall so your normal dose should do fine maybe a 5 mg increase might help if you're taking a particularly high dose of seroquel
What if you took 90 mg of Adderall?
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I think you mean milli (0.001) grams not mega (1000000) grams. 60 milli grams per day is the max dosage. Overdose may cause:
* Hyperactivity (trouble sitting still) * Rapid breathing * Confusion * Seizures * Fever * Muscle pains * Shakiness * Aggressiveness * Hallucinations * Death
Don't take anymore than your doctor prescribes. Don't ever take more than 60mg. A dosage of more than 60mg will not be pleasant!!! PS I'm not a doctor so double check with a doctor all my fact and figures before acting on them!!!
What are adderall withdrawal symptoms?
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Everywhere I have looked, it says moodiness and fatigue-which I can assure you is true. But I can't find anyone that says what I am going through. The first two days, I just slept. I woke up to eat, then went back to sleep. Now I've gotten off a couple times, so I know what to expect. Today is day three- and I have been up since 3 a.m. with severe cramps, chills, hot flashes and diarrhea. This is the day I dread... The cramps are so bad I cry and moan. It is identical to labor pain for me. Don't wanna scare anyone else, because I am the only person I know that goes through this kind of withdrawal pain. Please let me know if you can relate or if you know what to do to stop the pain.
Can a employer fire you for taking Adderall?
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No, or atleast you shouldn't be.
NO, if you are legally prescribed this medication and were fired you would have recourse under discrimination laws, you may be subject to re-assignment within your workplace if their is safety issues for either yourself or others-running machinery or forklift driving for example.
Can you take 45 mg of adderall xr?
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Answer: Now I'm kind of unsure as to what exactly you are asking here.... If you are asking is there such thing as a dosage that is exactly 45 mg in one pill of Adderall XR, than no(there is only 5,10,15,20,25,and 30 mg of Adderall XR) If you are asking if you can take 45mg of Adderall XR recreationally (without a prescription or to get high) then sure you could....if you want a heart attack. Starting out at 45mg especially on Adderall XR is like asking for cardiac arrest. The most I have done is 30mg, and that will make your heart pop out of your chest.((Note: I have Adderall prescribed to me ))Its the highest recommend dosage although some doctors prescribe two different dosages (for example 30mg and 5 mg, or 30mg and 10 mg.) That however is really uncommon, but who knows they give Adderall out to kids like candy. Now if your doctor has given you a prescription for 45 mg of Adderall (like 30mg, and 15mg together) then I'm pretty sure you can take it. Again, if its not prescribed to you than please do not try it. It is a pretty cheap high considering the damages it can cause through addiction and withdrawal. hope this helps, Megan. *******
What happens if you combine Strattera and Adderall?
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For common drug interactions, visit: http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/Interaction/ChooseDrugs/1,4109,,00.html There, you can "plug in" different drugs and find out if there are any known interactions. You really need to ask a pharmacist to be sure. Don't gamble with drugs, drug combinations or your health. Call your local drug store. They'll be glad to assist. ~ T
How can you inject Adderall safetly?
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You don't inject pills. There are insoluble binders in pills--like talc--that will clog veins and cause sickness and possibly death. The chemicals in Adderall are absorbed from the gut at nearly 100% efficiency, so there really is no need to risk hurting yourself by injecting something that was intended to be swallowed.
How can you get adderall out of your system within 24 hours?
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Typical "piss cleansers" (i.e. ReadyClean) should work...albeit, short term. Don't do it if you didn't get it legally.
How long does a 30 mg Adderall capsule stay in a human urine system?
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for like 30 days hence the 30 mgs trust me im a scientest
Can Adderall make ADHD symptoms worse?
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That being said prolonged use of the medications could cause issues for those without ADHD, as they would be operating with higher than average levels of these neurotransmitters. Any time you are forcing your body to operate in a way that it isn't intended to, you run a risk. ADHD patients taking this medication are in a different category however. In these patients the medication normalizes these neurotransmitters.
Think about it like this. You have two people, one of which has a normal metabolism and the other has a very high metabolism. If they both go out to a restaurant, the one with the high metabolism has to eat more to be full and keep their body fueled and running optimally. The person with the normal metabolism wouldn't want to eat as much as their friend, as they would become overweight. Someone with ADHD needs to medication to regulate their neurotransmitters and keep their mind running optimally. Someone without ADHD taking this medication doesn't need this help, so the medication could cause damage to their system.
i think its possible, because excessive amounts of dopamine burn out other cell receptors, leading to cell loss, and eventual brain damage, making it even harder to concentrate and focus later in life. dopamine is needed to focus, but taking a medication to stimulate dopamine activity is not natural, and it will do more bad then good, in the long run. its this: If your house is cold, would you burn the furniture in your house, to make it warm? not that im against medication, its just that there are always other options to solving a problem.
I started taking stimulant medication since I was in 8'th grade. My senior year I started taking too much of it because I wanted to prevent the emotional down that happens when it wears off. My doctor got scared that I would start abusing it, or that I aleady was, so she has been taking me off of it slowly since then. By my third year in college I was almost completely off of adderall. My life was more awful the less I took, because I no longer knew how to deal with having ADD symptoms. I have just got a new doctor and am going back onto adderall again. I'm not sure if my ADD is worse. I don't think it is but I could be wrong. I think it's just that I'm not used to having to contain and control the problems that come with having ADD. If I hadn't taken the medication until now, I would have probably learned how to deal with my symptoms better than I am able today. Some people even say that you can train your brain to not even have symptoms, expecially during your youth. (Biofeedback might help with training your brain as well). By taking pills that took away my ADD problems, I didn't have to learn meathods of dealing, and I didn't have to train my brain. Thus I missed out on making my ADD better. But I don't think the ADD is any worse than it used to be; I just have to re-learn selfrestraint. I also don't think that you could ever train your brain completely to have no ADD problems. My boyfriend has ADD but was never given medication for it. While he can deal with his ADD better than I could right now off my pills, his symptoms by no means have disapeared. Plus I have met several adults who have never gotten treatment and are still haveing big problems. If I could do it all again I would have taken stimulants even earlier in life. It has turned my life around. Stimulants have enabled me to preform better in school. For the first time in my life I actually got A's and B's. I started taking better care of myself because they motivated me to be more productive. I don't know if I could have ever made it into college if I didn't have adderall or other stimulants. When I have the right medication, I can major in anything I want--even subjects that require a lot of work. Otherwise I would have to major in something that didn't require a lot of attention, like art, or hospitality management. One of my friends who has not received any treatment was trying a difficult major and he is now 26 and only a junior because he has had to repeat classes. He is not dumb at all; he just can't concentrate on anything. I learned from doctors that people who don't treat ADD also can have problems with depression too, which I have seen examples of in some of my friends with ADD. If you are willing to be on medication for maybe even your whole life, it would definitely improve your life. If you are not willing and you still take meds, when you come off your meds, it will be a lot harder to deal with it than it would have been. However, you would have the benefit of having a more productive life for the period that you were on meds.
I've been taking either Ritalin or Dexedrine for 15 years. My ADD isn't worse. I've had more symptoms of old age pop in, but going from age 35 to 50 would account for being more tired now and more forgetful as well. After all those years, if something dastardly was going to happen, it would have by now. I know life without stimulant medication would not be worth living.
ummmmmm it would probably be inappropriate for me to answer this question in my immediate condition considering circa 40 minutes ago i just tossed up my container of dexies and hit a home run with my skateboard and watched those orange grommits go flying into the gulch outside my apartment. If my math is correct i am currently peaking from my last dose of orangemen that i took at 12:00 (it is 2:08 PST). I have been taking the short acting dexidrine 3 times a day since a week after graduating high school. i am currently a sophomore in college. my life since high school in three hundred million ways has been three hundred million times different. if my life ended today there would be no doubt i would consider the last 15 or so months to be the most prolific era of my life. I did AMAZING things. Now this is not to say that these are some miracle drug, i also tried sooooooo much harder and dreamed sooooooo much bigger than i ever had. im not exactly sure what went wrong, it went wrong, or if something actually did go wrong. there are soo many ways to look at things, and i can't choose one. All i know is i couldn't hang anymore with my current situation and so i just chucked them. My testimony cannot be taken as anything close to a standard or ordinary case however. I did not go about getting treated in an orthodox way by any means. when i was diagnosed with ADD i didn't even know what to think. I took it pretty acceptingly, and i was pretty much the only one. None of my friends really beleived me or even believed in ADD. None of them even do now. I don't think anybody beleives in ADD, and they've got me wondering if i even believe in it. In retrospect, you probably shouldn't take much from this testimony, i probably shouldn't even have written it. Perhaps i shall come back in a few weeks and edit it once i have undergone the grave magnitude of imminent change resulting from my recent actions. I have to go to class.
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It can be harder to accept ADD once it's treated. To experience ADD on a practical daily basis in is for the most part bull. 'Cut me a break from all the bunch of stupid crap going on all at once inside making everything complicated. I'm riding a bus. I just want to do this most simple routine but within seconds of silence I'll have a s-load of crap fill into my bucket about what i'm gona do next or what I'm gona do if I can't figure out what I'm gona do next or how I'm thinking about what and everything else all bunched that,
It's hard to not to wish for an easy way
to ride as simple as the wave
Are there any side effects of taking Adderall and working out?
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Yes there are side effects of taking adderal and working out. 1. The loss of weight. 2. The unwilliness to be motivated to do the same things you did when not taking the drug. *Notice* I hope that clears what the person had to say.
Taking lithium with adderall?
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Lithium is a mood stabilizer usually used in the treatment of patients with bi polar disorder and Adderall is a medication used for ADHD and Narcolepsy since it is a amphetamine which is a stimulate. The anorectic and stimulatory effects of amphetamines may be inhibited by lithium carbonate meaning that the adderall will not absorb properly into your system and could cause your levels of the amphetamine (Adderall) to be to unpredictable.
These two medications together are highly ill advised due to the drug interactions between the two. The two medications together would actually cause a chemical war going on inside of your body and you could experience some pretty horrifying side effects. If you are needing to be treated with both a mood stabilizer and a stimulant I would highly recommend speaking to your doctor about possibly changing one of the medications or both. There are many different types of medications out there that have less side effects and less interactions then these two together.
What time of day should you take adderall?
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when your doctor tells you to!
ok, if you got them from the street.....
if you want to sleep.. 8 am
if you don't care... why are you asking?
if you are not used to amphetamines, they can last a LONG time! also there is a marked comedown if you're not accustomed to it. There's a reason they only give this stuff to people who need it.
Is it safe to take 8 Adderall?
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It would obviously depend of the dosage. Taking 6 5mg Adderall would be the same as taking 1 30mg Adderall. So, to just say "8 Adderall" can be anywhere from 40mg to 240mg. It also depends on tolerance. If you have little or no amphetamine tolerance, I would not exceed 20-30mg in 1 dose. If your amphetamine tolerance is through the roof, you could probably handle a very large amount. This is not "safe" though, being that large doses of amphetamines can cause long term cardiovascular and psychological damage.
Can 30mg of Adderall kill you?
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If you do 200 mg's at once, I would not be surprised if your end up in the hospital or if your a veteran, just reallllly speedy lol. that also depends on if it's insufflated or taken orally. I've done a s.hitload of adderall and focalin, all of it snorted, but im still alive and I've done dose's much higher than 200 mg in a time span of 4-6 hours. hope that helps
Does Adderall affect your immune system?
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Possibly. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12120898&dopt=Abstract, which is a study showing that with short-term and long-term administration of amphetamine in mice at the dosage of 1mg/kg, the immune system response was notably lowered in several areas
Can you drink if you have taken Adderall?
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Answer: They can. But I wouldn't recommend it. Your liver is already struggling enough as it is with all the liquor and beer, the last thing it needs is something like amphetamines to come tearing through it. So my best advice is give your liver a fighting chance and either don't take the Adderall or stop drinking. Personally, I find drinking alot more pleasurable as to likes of Adderall. hope this helps, Megan. *******
Can long term use of Adderall cause weight gain?
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I really hope your not seriously asking that, but in case you are I'll answer it.....
Adderall's active ingredients are racemic amphetamine and dextroamphetine. Amphetamines are powerful stimulants capable of greatly inducing sympathetic nervous sytem responses. The result of this is an extremely decreased appetite and high metabolism. Both of those result in weight loss. Adderall is prescribed to some people who are morbidly obese as a means of making them lose weight.
