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Ask the ADD Medical Expert:
Larry Silver, M.D.
Signs of Adderall Addiction
Q:
"I am in my mid-30s and believe I may be addicted to Adderall. I look forward to taking the next day's dosage and get moody after it wears off. If I accidentally skip a dose, I get a "mini" anxiety attack."
A:
Any stimulant medication has the potential of causing addiction, but not at the doses used for ADHD when monitored by a physician. Used properly, there is minimal to no likelihood that you would become physiologically addicted to Adderall.
Once you learn how much these medications help, it might be possible to be psychologically worried that you'll have problems if you go off the medication. This is not addiction. You should discuss your concerns more with your physician.
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Apr 22 2009 @ 2:27 AM
About addiction and ADHD
I believe from my own experience and knowledge that when a person is ADHD addiction to the very medicine that is needed is unlikely. Now for a person that is not ADHD the risk might be greater. I think that the situation could be related to a person that is in constant pain from a legitimate injury. The pain may always be there at a level that is higher than tolerable. The person is in pain management, being given narcotic pain killers that are monitored by a doctor. The medicine is given regularly to the individual yes, but it is needed to function normally in daily life. The same goes for any mental disorder. If an individual is not able to function normally without medication then why would the same person be denied what they need. In my opinion it would be abusive not to give medicine that is needed to the individual for ADHD even if there is a risk. Especially if the risk is much greater without it to abuse street drugs or fail at life in general. So I guess my response to you is that even if you are feeling this way, you should weigh the risks of how you are in daily life with and with out it. Why were you put on it to begin with? and of course you will feel this way when you do not have it. It is an addictive drug after all and I just wanted to explain one other factor. There is a brain wave that I believe is called the delta wave. The wave can be reached by people without ADHD, but for those of us with ADHD it is not possible without medication. I beleive that this delta wave is a brain wave that is present when one is completing a task of some type. Now we with ADHD think about it and then when we begin to act upon the thought then our minds switch to something else and the task is usually not completed. So If this is true then medicine is needed or constant training of the mind or both. I hope that some of this helped.
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