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Adderall Addiction

September 15th, 2009. By janem

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The website collegeTips.com advertises Adderall for sale without a prescription, and Online-Pharmacy sells “Adderall No Prescription Needed Buy Cheap”, just to name a few online sites. Turns out that Adderall, a stimulant medication used in the treatment of attention deficit disorder (ADD) in both children and adults, is also wildly popular among college students.

One dose of Adderall is “good to go” for a child with ADD; one pill can last for about six hours per dose, so it can cover the entire school day. And that’s a great selling point for the drug company.

The drug company has also observed some side effects, such as loss of appetite—but it also says not to worry, just “feed a protein shake twice a day to help keep weight up”. It also notes “some irritability or anger (as when you have had too much caffeine) and possible short term growth inhibition (though long-term this may not be a problem).” Note the “may not be a problem” part. Why on earth would you give your kid this drug and maybe stunt his growth, protein shake aside? Read the rest of this entry »

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Drugging Kids With No Verifiable Disease

April 20th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

Psychiatry’s marketing strategy is to invent diagnoses out of thin air and call them diseases as an excuse to prescribe drugs, according to Dr Fred Baughman, author of The ADHD Fraud.

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