I am wondering if it is a placebo? I dissolved it in my mouth and it tastes sweet.

http://www.drugs.com/imprints/b-972-1-0-1622.html

Above it states it is real.

Maybe its a placebo, and we are thinking its real because of the placebo effect?

I don't think the placebo effect is as powerful as people make it out to be. I certainly wasn't expecting to feel intensely relaxed from a stimulant, and I don't think a placebo would cause symptoms like dehydration and appetite loss. Also, if it's a placebo, there would probably be more people not responding.

If our minds were really strong enough to produce that kind of effect, we probably wouldn't need such powerful drugs.

they do taste sweet for me too.
bar 15mg ir tastes like oranges
while eon 5mg taste a bit like grape

both taste sweet, i think its something they put in the pill to make it easier for little kids to take it, or to grind it up and put in kids food, but im not 100% sure.

Oh yeah, I forgot that kids take it. That could be the reason. Of course, if they make them too sweet kids might abuse them. lol

The fillers they use in the instant release ones, particularly the sugars, etc, are all meant to be cheap, abuse-proof (allegedly, to goo up in your nose so you can't snort them), among others. But its always shocking how the stuff that they prescribe the most to kids (other than antibiotics, lol), is the sweetest candy of all - it has your highly addictive substance known as amphetamine, and a bit of sugar to cover up all that bitter taste from amphetamine.

Be thankful it doesn't take like wellbutrin. It's like tasting...colors, or something. Very bizarre.

Be thankful it doesn't take like wellbutrin. It's like tasting...colors, or something. Very bizarre.

Sounds like the last time I dropped acid.. hearing colors, tasting sounds, etc. lol

Sounds like the last time I dropped acid.. hearing colors, tasting sounds, etc. lol

I have that on a daily basis. When I dropped acid, though, I started hearing sights. And that's something I don't experience quite as often.

I guess that's why acid never appealed to me that much.

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Umm the topic is "it taste sweet" Please lets stick to the topic

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Above it states it is real.

Maybe its a placebo, and we are thinking its real because of the placebo effect?

They test the effects of things like adderall against a placebo to make sure it is more effective - besides not all placebos taste sweet - the term sugar pills is a metaphor not a literal meaning

I don't think the placebo effect is as powerful as people make it out to be. I certainly wasn't expecting to feel intensely relaxed from a stimulant, and I don't think a placebo would cause symptoms like dehydration and appetite loss. Also, if it's a placebo, there would probably be more people not responding.

If our minds were really strong enough to produce that kind of effect, we probably wouldn't need such powerful drugs.

In Michael Talbot's The Holographic Universe, he references a study where half of the patients in the placebo group, in a study of a chemotherapy drug, lost their hair. So I don't believe that strong effects are necessarily an indicator that something is not a placebo.

Doctors do prescribe placebos sometimes, but in an article that was posted here recently, it was made clear that the drugs are never mislabeled. If you got a placebo, the bottle would not say it was Adderall, or if it's a generic, "amphetamine salt combo."

In Michael Talbot's The Holographic Universe, he references a study where half of the patients in the placebo group, in a study of a chemotherapy drug, lost their hair. So I don't believe that strong effects are necessarily an indicator that something is not a placebo.

That's just. . .really weird. I really don't know what to say about that. Except, how much hair did they lose?

That's just. . .really weird. I really don't know what to say about that. Except, how much hair did they lose?

I read it a long time ago and it was a book I borrowed so I don't even have access to it, but the wording used led me to believe that it was pretty much all of it, just like those in the group that got the real drug.

It does sound strange, but the placebo effect is all about the mind creating the conditions in the body that the patient expects to receive from the medicine. And even the more minor effects documented from placebos in research study require a lot of things to occur on a physiological level.

The implications are staggering.

Barr's generic formulation of Adderall (either blue or orange) does indeed have a sweet taste.

Barr's brand formulation of Adderall (bought the rights from Shire) does not.

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I've always had the blue Barr Adderall and I kinda like that it has the sweet taste to it. Pills go down better for me if they don't taste bad.:)

Take caution when dissolving these tablets orally. This is essentially sublingual administration, which means that the drug is absorbed faster than it would be orally. It is somewhere in between oral and insufflation (inhaled)...

Yeah, it tastes sweet.
It also definitely works.

Methinks someone might be hyperfocusing .

its salts and sugar