jtizzlicious
05-04-08, 08:20 PM
This is my first posting on this site. A little background:
I was diagnosed with ADD sophomore year of college, almost failed out....started taking adderall and bounced back with a 3.5 - going on to graduate with a degree in psychology. No doubt I owe much of my success to adderall (and my counselors).
But the real reason I wanted to post here today is that I came to a startling conclusion recently when my life began to come apart - from many angles and many relationships. And besides myself, I blame adderall.
I had always taken 10mg 3x/day until about 6 months ago, where I began to develop a so-called "tolerance" and had my RX upped to 40mg/day.
After dabbling with 15mg at a time, I began to experiment with 20mg, foolishly thinking that I knew more than my psychiatrist - simply because I know a lot about psychology and ADD!!
Long story short, I began to take adderall more and more to survive, even when out drinking - which proved to be dangerous - i had several occasions driving drunk on the wrong side of the road....staying out all night drinking and missing commitments the next day - which obviously strains relationships and sometimes gets you in trouble with the law.
I guess my point is that for a while, I thought I was bigger and better than the medication. I thought that I wasn't one of those idiots that got hooked and started abusing it. But that is the illusion - nobody actually KNOWS and THINKS they are doing it at the time! They think everything is fine...its a total MINDF*CK!
So be careful with this medication. It says do not drink alcohol on the front for a reason. It's a controlled substance - for a reason. Don't think you are better than this. It is a powerful drug - and can be used for so many wonderful, productive, amazing things - like rescuing someone with tons of talent and potential like myself and scores of others. But just like anything that good, it can be used to make you feel like you are superman, and just like any other stimulant like coke or meth or whatever - you will eventually reach your downfall.
Fortunately after several horrible situations like remembering driving drunk at 4am on the wrong side of the road and not crashing or getting pulled over - or nearly losing my job from being late so much because I was out drinking and able to sustain myself the next day because of adderall - or almost missing an international flight back to the US because I was out drinking flying high on adderall the night before - I realized what this drug - AND IT IS A DRUG - was doing to me before it was too late.
Others who have had bad experiences with alcohol and adderall please share. But here is my bottom line:
-Adderall increases your temporary tolerance to nearly unlimited for the time that it is acting on your body (4-5 hours per pill, excluding XR), yet your BAC is still rising. Once this wears off at the end of the night, you are in serious trouble.
-I'm not sure what mixing the two in high doses does to your body, but I know that cocaine and alcohol mixed is one of the worst things you can do to your body, so God only knows about this combo's toxicity....
one more note: I know some people are going to post about using a few drinks to help the "come down" from adderall. This is fine - I am not speaking to this. I am speaking to the blatant usage of adderrall to enhance a night of drinking or extend a night of drinking.
I was diagnosed with ADD sophomore year of college, almost failed out....started taking adderall and bounced back with a 3.5 - going on to graduate with a degree in psychology. No doubt I owe much of my success to adderall (and my counselors).
But the real reason I wanted to post here today is that I came to a startling conclusion recently when my life began to come apart - from many angles and many relationships. And besides myself, I blame adderall.
I had always taken 10mg 3x/day until about 6 months ago, where I began to develop a so-called "tolerance" and had my RX upped to 40mg/day.
After dabbling with 15mg at a time, I began to experiment with 20mg, foolishly thinking that I knew more than my psychiatrist - simply because I know a lot about psychology and ADD!!
Long story short, I began to take adderall more and more to survive, even when out drinking - which proved to be dangerous - i had several occasions driving drunk on the wrong side of the road....staying out all night drinking and missing commitments the next day - which obviously strains relationships and sometimes gets you in trouble with the law.
I guess my point is that for a while, I thought I was bigger and better than the medication. I thought that I wasn't one of those idiots that got hooked and started abusing it. But that is the illusion - nobody actually KNOWS and THINKS they are doing it at the time! They think everything is fine...its a total MINDF*CK!
So be careful with this medication. It says do not drink alcohol on the front for a reason. It's a controlled substance - for a reason. Don't think you are better than this. It is a powerful drug - and can be used for so many wonderful, productive, amazing things - like rescuing someone with tons of talent and potential like myself and scores of others. But just like anything that good, it can be used to make you feel like you are superman, and just like any other stimulant like coke or meth or whatever - you will eventually reach your downfall.
Fortunately after several horrible situations like remembering driving drunk at 4am on the wrong side of the road and not crashing or getting pulled over - or nearly losing my job from being late so much because I was out drinking and able to sustain myself the next day because of adderall - or almost missing an international flight back to the US because I was out drinking flying high on adderall the night before - I realized what this drug - AND IT IS A DRUG - was doing to me before it was too late.
Others who have had bad experiences with alcohol and adderall please share. But here is my bottom line:
-Adderall increases your temporary tolerance to nearly unlimited for the time that it is acting on your body (4-5 hours per pill, excluding XR), yet your BAC is still rising. Once this wears off at the end of the night, you are in serious trouble.
-I'm not sure what mixing the two in high doses does to your body, but I know that cocaine and alcohol mixed is one of the worst things you can do to your body, so God only knows about this combo's toxicity....
one more note: I know some people are going to post about using a few drinks to help the "come down" from adderall. This is fine - I am not speaking to this. I am speaking to the blatant usage of adderrall to enhance a night of drinking or extend a night of drinking.