Posted by MB on July 22, 2003, at 13:31:47
In reply to SPECT scans in Oregon, posted by AOB on July 22, 2003, at 3:02:22
I found the Amen Clinic to be an expensive speed dealership. I went there for depression, OCD and anxiety. Ended up with an ADD diagnosis and a script for many meds including Adderall. Adderall was the only one that helped the depression (antidepressants have never really helped me) but I had to keep increasing the dose. The doctor had no problem with this as long as I called once a month for my 15-minute, $150 phone consultation. I told him I was getting addicted, and he said, ADD people don't get addicted. He knew I was a recovering amphetamine addict in a 12-step program, but still, as long as the money rolled in, everything was fine. Finally I had to detox myself and check into an inpatient treatment facility. Turns out, I don't even really have ADD...at least none of the other therapists I have seen think so.
This place specializes in ADD, and they will tend to see it wherever they look. My doc said to me, "We need you to come visit in person once a year so the government doesn't think we're a feel-good clinic." Now, why would he even say that unless on some unconscious level, he was afraid that it might be true. Have they had problems with the DEA in the past? My dad's psychiatrist that he sees at Stanford Medical thinks this place gets people hooked on amphetamine and sits back as the money rolls right in at $600/hr over the phone. One of her patients is an Amen Clinic casualty. He was such an amphetamine addict when he got to her, it took her two years to get him back to baseline. He was getting the amphetamine from the Amen clinic. Don't you think they should have recognised he was in trouble? I don't think they cared, they were raking in the $$$. Check out their web site. It's like a cyber-infomercial.
MB
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