Posted by West on August 10, 2008, at 8:43:08
In reply to Freud, Cocaine, and WHY THE HELL DIDNT WE LEARN?, posted by calamityjane on August 9, 2008, at 0:16:16
> Is it just me, or is it bizarre that adderall is prescribed to people by doctors. When Freud began trying to "fix" peoples problems by giving them cocaine, it was an innocent mistake that unfortunately proved very costly in the end. Many lives were ruined.
>Cocaine has a very complex action, its primary effect is in blocking the reuptake of the three most widely known neurotransmitters norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine. It is not neurotoxic but in studies has shown to damage the protein VMAT2 which plays a vital role in maintaining the brain's pleasure centre.
Amphetamine's primary action is to release norepinephrine and dopamine from their vesicles. It is neurotoxic and causes a persistent depletion in dopamine as well as neuronal chromatolysis in the brain stem, cortex and striatum...
> Adderall is not so different from cocaine. I just do not get why the FDA feels this is an appropriate drug to be handing out in doctors office. It has done quite a number on my life. And while i hold myself responsible for not taking the medicine the way I was always instructed to do, I do feel a bit betrayed by the literature and companies that made me think I needed this drug.
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> For a good five years I have had a VERY bittersweet battle with Adderall. Thank GOD I never tried any street drugs, because if this is bad then I cant even imagine what something else would be like.
>Forgive me if i'm wrong but when did we stop becoming responsible for what we put in our bodies? I mean you alone are responsible for what you take, no one forced you to take something, presumably you had heard of adderall -its reputation as a cocktail of amphetmaines (and all that entails),it's acute effects on wellbeing, the fact that it speed, i doubt you were naive to when you first took it. I will repeat what i said about you being the only one responsible for your mental health: researching any chemical you ingest would be my advice for you in the future.
You mention 'not taking it when you were supposed to' - i avoid using the ghastly catch term 'abuse'-(since i find it and the rest of the puritan 21st American government vernacular like it ridiculous) which i will interpret as 'took at doses larger than or more often than prescribed'. In my eyes there is no distinction between what you have done and perhaps somebody less well off than you using the 'street-drugs' you talk about, although you'd be wise to avoid methamphetmaine which is superceded only by the psychiatric study-employed potent neurotoxin chloramphetamine in its deleterious effects on the brain.
I can't understand why adderall is prescribed to anyone, let alone depressives and teens whose brains are still growing and adjusting. It's effects as a reinforcing drug are almost instant and the brain very quickly begins to crave the drug.
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