[Guest]

Despite all of the awful effects of my drug use in the past, I still have yet to shake the mentality of my past. I say this, while smoking a cigarette. I'm not talking about just alcohol, but another problem i've been dealing with lately.

I feel like total crap, have been since friday night where I drank and took a large dose of adderall (amphetamine for adhd). I am prescribed this med, and it is very helpful in moderation, yet I choose to occasionally take too much to have fun, and it is anything but that right now. Since my euphoric friday night, I am confined to this hellish state of paranoia and anxiety.

Its finals week here at my institution of higher learning and my anxiety levels are about as bad as they can get. In conclusion, I am a total idiot.

 

[sleepingbeauty]

so whats the high you get from adderall? i take it for ADD cause it calms down the chaos in my head. it doenst take it away.. just sort of sorts it out a bit so that i can get through the day without too much frustration. its not really working though i think i may have to go up in the dose.. but i dont get any dopey or speedy effects from it. it makes me more tired than anything else but thats what its supposed to do if you have ADD.

im on 10mgs. is that low? i dont really know. i guess my question is how can you possibly get high off it??

mind you id never do that first of all cause i only get perscribed the exact dosage that will last me the month, from the time im perscribed it to the time i see my doc again. no more than that. and also cause its a controlled substance and i have to sign all these papers each time i go to pick it up at the pharmacy. if they even suspected i was taking it for rec reasons im sure they would put a halt to my coverage.

 

[Guest]

I'm prescribed 15 mgs and even that seems a bit low for me. 25 would seem to be the most effective. As far as getting high of of adderall, on friday night I may have taken about 60 mg that night. I was also drunk, and I got about 4 hours of sleep friday and saturday night combined because of it.

Its a controlled substance for a reason, because in high enough doses its just as powerful as any meth of coke out there.

Its funny, because i'm totally against taking it recreationally, yet I have stupid urges sometimes I can't get rid of. I actually try selling it as much as possible (easy because its finals time) just so I don't have as much left over because I tend to abuse it.

 

[Guest]

I abused alot of weed, which in part is the reason im all fucked up now

Actually at that group therapist meeting I went to, one of them told me that it can take up to 18 months to fully get all traces of thc out of your system,because it goes into your fat cells.

 

[Guest]

I'm not worried about my fat cells getting dp/dr though. There aren't any THC deposits inside of any of our heads or anything. Its not like we could smoke your brain and get high or anything, so i'm not worried about that.

 

[Homeskooled]

Actually, because the brain is composed of fat and only fat, this is unfortunately where a good part of anything fat soluble in your body is going to be retained. The blood brain barrier can stop most of it, but psychotropic drugs like THC can cross right over. Meaning giving it 18 months of abstinence really isnt that bad of an idea.

Peace
Homeskooled

 

[Guest]

I think its a great idea. I'm not going to argue that the brain is made of fat, or that smoking weed cannot permantly effect the brain, or at least for 18 months.

 

[gimpy34]

Adderall makes me feel horrible when used recreationally. I'd take it before going out for a night of boozing every now and then just to get some energy, and I would like complete crap the next day. Coke never made me feel as bad as Adderall, even on low doses like 15mg.

One of my college roommates had generalized anxiety disorder and he said Adderall and Ritalin made him feel much worse the next day than cocaine did. Don't know what it is. Maybe because it lasts longer.