I'm OK with 2nd chances but I think the topic has something to do with where and how that 2nd chance comes. This is something where the kid is trying to make easy $$$. The questions will be where did the supply come from or is he selling a personal Rx?
It doesnt reflect on them at all. Kids do stuff like this for all types of reasons that having nothing to do because of their parents. Heck, I have had clients that threw away offers from Alabama and Auburn because their parents were so rich, powerful, nurturing, and insular, he thought he was untouchable. It never occurred to him that he if got caught doing something that it wouldn't be OK. His parents always made things OK. As his lawyer, it was my job to make it OK ... and I did. I made 200 tabs of ecstasy and four 20 oz bottles of GHB analog a gun and $2000.00 turn into a single misdemeanor count of drug paraphernalia. The kid needed to be launched. Anyone who knows their way around the block knows he was supplying his friends with the tools to groom younger inexperienced girls into bedrooms. He was a tool kit for rapists. If you talked to him and knew his parents, you know he wasn't a rapist. But he thought it was an opportunity to take advantage of a demand that nobody else was filling. The kid got diversion, I got $20K for a couple of phone calls and some legal research, and dad had to skip his solo hunting vacation that year. Ive had dozens of clients with similar stories and backgrounds. We have raised a generation of kids that have been taught from an early age that they need Rx medication to function at a high level in the classroom. Indeed, many believe that they need the Rx for an advantage over their peers. They view Rx as vitamins or food. So, they view Rx as benign, even helpful. This goes for their recreational life too. There is nothing wrong with the parenting here on the face of it. We would need to know a lot more.
That's because you have a moral center, unlike most of the rest of the country these days.
I've had a couple of ex girlfriend's who probably had a need for Xanax, but abused it. They ended up zombies half of the time.
Ironically the biggest challenge with medication and people who actually are ADHD isn't abusing the medicine, it's the opposite, the challenge is getting them to take it regularly. Many of them don't like the feeling of the medicine and have to see its benefit in spite of not liking the experience. Research shows that teens and adolescents who have ADHD and take medicine are significantly less likely to use other drugs, get arrested, have conduct related school issues, etc. Shaming them and stigmatizing the medication makes it even worse.
That's not my intent whatsoever. I'm angry about people that DON'T really need it starting college and starting to use it. I also knew some people that had been diagnosed as kids and actually had the prescriptions for it and used it in a legitimate way, and I had no real problem with that. As a person that probably would have been prescribed the drugs legitimately as a child and was trying to get by without them, it made me mad to see people that didn't need them other than during all night study sessions start using them.
I was/am adhd and never wanted to take Ritalyn and the like for the very reason you are talking about. I tried it out of curiosity in my early 40's just to see what it was like. Didn't seem to have an effect on me one way or the other. The exes I am talking about had a problem with Panic attacks not ADHD.
If you have problems with insomnia, whether it is due anxiety or anything else, you should consider Elavil. It is an old school anti depressant that is prescribed for off label use as a sleep aid. Has no addictive qualities, and very few side effects. It is the only medication I take for anything. I have been a constant insomniac since I had the stroke. If you want further info about it, you can email me at Gmoney4ww@gmail.com, and I can go into a little more detail about it.
I've seen a bit of his tastes. They are probably too good looking for Barrister to be interested.
I have taken Xanax for stress induced anxiety. It's not even a daily thing. It can help you sleep some and leaves you a little light headed/cloudy upon initial waking. To get any type of light headed high you'd need to take more than 1 and probably 3-4 at a time. I can't imagine the kids buying it are doing so for test prep or a rush.
Ritalin was a first generation medicine, i don't think it's prescribed much anymore because the newer drugs are more effective and have fewer side effects. Some people don't respond to some drugs so you'll sometimes have to try a couple to find one that works. And some people with ADHD don't respond to any of the drugs. ADHD is really a cluster of related conditions that are bucketer together but aren't the same.
Thanks for sharing Junkie. It's by sharing that people realize how common these challenges are, and seeing our friends and neighbors and people we respect struggle with them is how it becomes destigmatized.
I have actually heard Adderall referred to as "Madderall" by some parents who are trying to find the right combo for their son. Apparently the adderall side effect on him was fits of rage.
Yup. Irritability and major loss of appetite are the main side effects of most of those drugs I believe.
A very large percentage of kids who are diagnosed with ADHD are sent to the doctor because of legal issues. The impulse control translates into poor emotional control, so they lash out and explode and become violent or reckless. They're also much more likely to do illegal drugs because of the impulse control. They also get labeled as bad kids which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Prescription medicines, when the right one is found, have a significant positive impact on this, and kids that are treated for their ADHD are much less likely to have legal and academic issues. For most the prescription significantly reduces aggression and emotional outbursts.
