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August 24, 2009 
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A new report released today suggests that Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg more and more teens are abusing stimulant medications like Ritalin and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg Adderall. Depending upon which news outlet you Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg are listening to, the angle and agenda is going to be Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg slightly different.
I’ve seen reports from Reuters (article here) that Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg focus on the substantial increase in calls to Poison Control centers across the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg country.
The Associated Press (article here) seems to be focusing on drug abuse, and a report from CBS News (article here) begins with a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg comparison of the abuse of marijuana to ADHD stimulant medications.
Caution: Here’s What The Media And Scientific Reports Leave Out
I’ll be honest with you. I glanced over these articles quickly. I saw what Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg I needed to, and immediately had to weigh on this Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg issue for my readers. Out of the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg three reports, I am very pleased that an expert for CBS talked about the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg increase abuse being related to an increased awareness of ADHD and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg ADHD stimulant medications.
I am NOT suggesting this is okay, or stops the issue dead in it’s tracks, BUT, a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg report like this can be quickly misinterpreted and take on a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg life of it’s own. I know as a parent I would be scared by rising numbers. And it doesn’t help that Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg ADHD medications are already one of the most controversial, hot-button issues related to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg attention deficit hyperacitivity disorder.
For the record, I am NOT here to weigh in on the use of medications…or even the abuse of these medications. What I am here to do is make sure you know all the facts.
#1 – These reports concern me becuase people are Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg likely to see the large number or percent of increase over time. What often gets down-played is that we really didn’t talk a lot about ADHD in 1988 like we do now (and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg is subsequently reported in the 2005 numbers of calls to poison control).
#2 – There also doesn’t seem to be much focus on the evidence that supports less drug abuse by those teens or children who are appropriately treated for ADHD.
I’ve held interviews on this Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg very topic, and the consensus is that someone who is properly treated for Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg ADHD, is less likely to abuse drugs.
#3 - I am Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg also a little frightened about this topic because it is Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg during the teen years when kids tend to start experimenting with drugs. With ADHD stimulant medications now being more popular than Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg ever, I can understand why their abuse is on the rise.
Not too mention, I can Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg fully understand the passing around of these stimulant medications as kids prepare for Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg college exams.
I do NOT condone or support this type of behavior. But let’s recognize what is going on here. Whether we like or Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg not, kids will look for any competitive edge to help them around exam time… I know this was a hot topic when I was at college studying for exams.
The Implications:
The implications from Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg a report like this are likely to create widespread panic, and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg add more fuel to an already raging debate over the use of medication to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg treat ADHD. Heck, it’s likely to spark fires about whether or not ADHD even exists.
Let’s accept reality for what it is… Kids are going to try and experiment with drugs. We are Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg placing more and more pressure on teens and students to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg perform – with expectations getting higher and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg higher in a very competitive and volatile workforce.
Substance abuse of any kind is concerning. It’s troubling. I’ve lived it… I’ve been affected by it… And I’ve supported families fighting substance abuse.
Let’s leave the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg hype of ADHD drug abuse out of the mix, and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg report the facts about WHO specifically is abusing these drugs.
Hi,
I have Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg a teen that to my surprise has been on drugs far longer then Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg I knew. I consented for adhd medications at grade 5/6 level, to help her through school. To my amazement, I found her pills being stored and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg not taken after many attempts of looking for the best fit. Her choice was to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg take street drugs for fun things and secretly stop taking her adhd meds. That’s why I was totally confused as to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg why her meds were not working. We went through a few years of hard times. My teen was not allowed to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg receive meds once found out about her choice in recreational drug abuse. She is Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg now clean but wants to start up on her meds this Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg fall again, for school. Now, she has Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg done grade ten for the last three years and is still in grade 10. I would say, from our point of view. Adhd meds have Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg nothing to do with drug abuse and choice of recreational drugs unless its the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg choice of flavour. Yes, its hype and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg sorry to see the abuse is all around no matter what Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg one says. Its up to the individual to choose a good path of choices.
ADHD is Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg serious who has been diagnosed with it. People need to be Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg educated on this issue.There are also those that have it that Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg do not know it. It doesn’t need to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg be slandered or misunderstood. If medication is taken for other purposes and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg it helps the problem that’s good news, under a Dr.’s care of course.
ADHD is no different.
A certain amount of young people and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg adults are going to misuse drugs, others are not. Those who Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg have to administer medicine for help and use it properly, should not be Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg discriminated because of those who abuse it.
It is Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg time we who understand this situation try to educate others who Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg do not know about the side effects of ADHD and how it Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg affects other individuals lives. We have to take a stand and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg the time is now!
I had Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg a teen who refused to take ADHD meds, but has ended up medicating himself with alcohol and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg nicotine instead. The meds had such a stigma that he refused to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg take them. These hyped reports do a great harm to people whom the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg meds could truly help taken properly. My son dropped out of highschool. He is Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg in his late 20′s now and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg has his own business. But I wonder how much better his life might be Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg had he not been made afraid to face his condition — he was diagnosed with ADHD at 12.
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In our county of 200,000, we have Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg lost two people to Ritalin abuse that I know of in a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg twenty year period.
One was an AD/HD adult who Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg was an alcoholic. He had been under the care of a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg psychiatrist who specialized in AD/HD for three years. It’s unusual for Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg a doctor to prescibe stimulant medication to a patient who is Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg abusing drugs or alcohol. It’s possible the psychiatrist didn’t know. I can’t remember if I asked the family. Unfortunately, the AD/HD adult would periodically abuse his Ritalin by shooting it Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg up. Not sure if that’s the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg right term. On the day of his death, he abused his Ritalin. I believe he had Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg also been drinking. His mother found him, still breathing but unconsious in his bedroom. She immediately called 911. Her husband, a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg Paramedic, was one of the responders. They were unable to revive him. I believe he was 29 or Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg 39 years old.
The other was a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg 16 year old boy. My husband and I knew the parents. Nice family, nice boy. The young man and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg a number of his friends were hanging out one night. Someone gave him some Ritalin. Sometime later that Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg evening, he collapsed and died. I’ve often wondered how the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg person who gave him the Ritalin coped. Initially, it was reported that Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg he died of a Ritalin overdose. In talking with the coroner, I learned that Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg the coroner’s conclusion had Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg been premature. In part because the young man was so dehydrated at the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg time of his death, it was difficult to extract enough fluid to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg determine how much Ritalin he had ingested. A month or so later, it Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg was reported that his death was most likely due to a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg undiagnosed heart condition.
I stopped taking stimulants for my AD/HD ten years ago. It was a mistake.
During that Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg period, I gained an additional 25 pounds, probably due to stress eating. Six years ago, I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes. And just recently, I have Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg been diagnosed with diabetes II.
A month ago, I began taking stimulant medication again with the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg hope that it would bring my stress levels down. It did. I’m losing weight (though not due to the stimulant, the side effect, “loss of appetite”, only lasted a week or so).
I’m focused, more relaxed, less moody, and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg my energy level has gone from lethargic to normal. My hope is Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg that the medication will help me to stay focused on eating properly and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg exercising so I can lose 50 pounds over the next year. In a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg months time, I’ve lost 5 pounds. I feel hopeful.
Stimulant medication can Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg do great harm or great good. The problem is not the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg medication, it’s the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg people who chose to share it or abuse it, the families who Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg do not report abuse to the patient’s doctor, and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg perhaps, in some cases, the doctors who sometimes do not properly diagnose, or Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg ask the right questions, or monitor the patient’s other life circumstances in addition to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg his or her responses to treatment.
As an advocate on behalf of AD/HD adults for Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg almost 20 years, I can say with confidence that while stimulant abuse does happen, it’s rarely by properly diagnosed and treated AD/HD adults. Rather, most struggle to remember to take their medication.
AD/HD adolescents, however, often do not fully grasp the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg legal consequences and dangers of sharing their medication, particularly if they haven’t bought into the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg benefits of taking it. I have not heard any stories of AD/HD adolescents abusing their stimulant medication in our community, though it’s possible that Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg it could happen, I suppose. On the other hand, I do know of AD/HD adolescents using other, non-stimulant drugs recreationally. And these teens, as mentioned in an Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg earlier post, typically are non-compliant in taking their stimulant medication.
AD/HD is real. AD/HD treatments change lives for Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg the better more often than not. Sadly, there will always be Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg people who abuse drugs. But again, in my experience, it is Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg rare for an AD/HD adolescent or adult to abuse stimulants.
As an addiction counselor with over 12 yrs experience (10yrs w/adolescents) I can Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg assure you there is NO hype about drug abuse among our teens. Too often these kids do not want to take their meds b/c it slows them down and they don’t feel themselves. However, they love a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg thrill and rush, so they will do whatever they can to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg get that rush. They often sell or Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg trade their meds for other drugs that will give them the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg excitment they are looking for. Pill abuse among our youth is Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg epidemic but its not just stimulants, its all pills including benzoes and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg opiates.
My 22 who Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg is not ADHD or Add but has reading disabiltiy started using drugs when Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg his father remarried into it. Meaning his new wife and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg kids all done drugs. My son was busted in school with 5.00 of pot he was selling but at the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg time was clean. went to councoling and spend a hugh amount of money to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg try and straightern him out and the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg high school kicked him out the day before he turned 18. 6 months later he was in jail for Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg burgurly stealing to pay for his drugs. He spent 4 years in prison and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg was released last december
so far he been clean and he says he’ll never touch them again. But these we’re his choices no one else.
Dr. Stern, I appreciate your Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg efforts to put this issue in perspective. Too often, the media fails to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg explain that it’s the non-AD/HD teens who are abusing the stimulants.
That said, those non-AD/HD teens are Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg being supplied with stimulants, most likely by their AD/HD friends.
10, 15 years ago, this issue was shouted down by the AD/HD community every time this Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg problem was raised by the media. Your response was honest and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg well stated, but ultimately had the same result. No one wants to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg talk about teen alcohol and drug abuse.
My question to you is “Are the national and community-based AD/HD organizations speaking to this issue now? And are Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg they providing parents guidance on how to appropriately monitor their AD/HD teen’s stimulant medication to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg prevent redistribution of these medications to our non-AD/HD teens?
I cannot begin to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg tell you how frustrated I am with teen alcohol and drug abuse, and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg the parents who ignorantly contribute to the problem in one way or Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg another. One example is not properly monitoring their AD/HD teen’s stimulant medication.
But there are Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg other problems too. For almost a year now, a number of us have Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg joined together to support a single mother who is trying to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg get her 16 year old son to stop smoking, and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg stop using alcohol, marijuana, and hallucigens. He was failing academically (though thanks to our school district’s alternative high school, he’s making some progress). He has been in juvenile detention off and on all summer for “dirty” UA’s and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg curfew violations. I believe the judge who keeps putting him in detention and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg who doubles his time in detention each time, may very well have Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg saved this teen’s life. He has Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg a lot of time to think while in there, and it Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg also gives his mother adequate access to him once a day as they continue to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg dialogue about the choices her teenage son is making.
How else are parents contributing to the problem? By allowing this Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg teen to stay in their home for one, two, three days at a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg time without talking with the teen’s mother – (as a result, the mother can’t find him). These parents wrongly believe that Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg the teen is being mistreated by his mother who is simply trying to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg keep him in school and off alcohol and drugs. Some of these parents even go as far as telling this Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg teen that drugs should be decriminalized and that he is a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg victim of the judicial system. They forget that the adolescent brain is Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg still growing and developing and that we have a responsibility to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg protect the adolescents the potentially damaging effects of alcohol and recreational drug use. These teenagers are Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg not adults, and should not be treated as if they’re adults.
But it’s not just the parents who are contributing to the problem.
Eventhough this Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg teen has been in and out of the mental health system throughout his life, not one mental health care professional identified his AD/HD or Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg anxiety disorder. After three years of academic struggle, he began using alcohol and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg drugs. I hate to say it, but this was a good thing in the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg sense that there is a lot of funding for recovery counseling and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg programs.
As a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg result of his alcohol and drug abuse, he has finally been Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg diagnosed, but, guess what, now that he has a history of alcohol and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg drug use, it is going to be an uphill battle to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg get him appropriately treated with stimulant medication.
He needs the stimulant medication to “get” what Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg he desperately needs to learn in his recovery counseling and outpatient groups and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg programs, but because he’s still using periodically as evidenced by the required UA’s, I don’t know if and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg when we are going to be able to get him appropriately treated for Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg his AD/HD.
Despite more than Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg 20 years of research-based treatments, educational accomodations, and skills programs for Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg AD/HD children and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg teens, we are still failing them, particularly the undiagnosed and untreated AD/HD teens who Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg understandably lose hope, disconnect from their schools and families, and, more often than Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg not, fall victim to the down ward spiral of alcohol and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg drug abuse, which leads to stealing, which leads to incarceration, etc.
And I have Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg to say, sadly, a lot of these teens have good hearts but they no Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg longer believe they have choices and there days and nights are Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg driven by the need to find the next high.
Talk about stuck.
Here’s my final point.
I am tired of the divide that exists between AD/HD treatment professionals and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg chemical dependency counselors. Members of your professions pay lip service to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg one another but you’re not joining into a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg meaningful dialog with one another about this critical, dual diagnosis issue. And as a Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg result, we’re losing some good AD/HD teens to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg drug abuse, and ultimately expensive social service programs and/or incarcerations.
Stop beating up the Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg media for attempting to bring attention to the issue of teen alcohol and Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg drug abuse. Like it or not, the AD/HD community needs to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg acknowledge teen alcohol and drug abuse and begin taking steps to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg curtail the redistribution by teens of these theraputic, stimulant medications for Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg recreational use.
I have 3 kids (various ages) all on medication. My oldest who Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg is 15 years really has a hard time functioning without it. He has Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg stated in discussion with me about this, that if he was not on medication, he would self medicate, just to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg be able to function. I agree that Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg it is about teaching our kids, setting good boundries,prayer, helping them to Xanax Tablets Alprazolam 2mg make good choices, oh and did I say prayer…..
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