Don't do it. Black market adderall is pill pressed dirty meth
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Only IR, not XR. And not all IR—buy a test kit, everyone!
Are there test kits that could differentiate the two? Wouldn't they both just test positive for amphetamines?
Or are you suggesting it to check for other drugs such as fentanyl?
Oh no, you can differentiate between meth and adderall!
I’ve tested some shady pills that didn’t even turn colour. Not even meth. Super bad.
If buying anything black market buy fentanyl strips and narcan. Strips from dancesafe are good and narcan from a nonprofit like harm reduction circle
I wonder how much the opioid lawsuit settlements' rules for drug distributors and pharmacists is driving this
The distributors use algorithms that cap the quantities of controlled substances a pharmacy can sell in a month. Before the settlement, pharmacists said, they could explain to a distributor the reason for a surge in demand and still receive medications past their limits. Now the caps appear to be more rigid: Drugs are cut off with no advance notice or rapid recourse. As a condition of the settlement, distributors cannot tell pharmacies what the thresholds are.
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But some doctors said that legitimate prescriptions were being caught in the dragnet, while pharmacists said they were declining to dispense some medications for fear of setting off triggers.
Distributors can investigate and resolve red flags if they are satisfied by a pharmacy’s explanation, but they can also stop supplying them with controlled drugs altogether.
Swept up in the scrutiny are college students far from home trying to fill their Adderall prescriptions, patients in rural areas where it is customary to drive long distances for medical care, and hospice providers that rely on local pharmacies for controlled substances instead of on a specialized supplier that would be exempt from the limits, The Times found.
Restrictions on controlled substances had already been ratcheted up for years, as concerns about abuse grew during the opioid epidemic. More recently, shortages of some drugs, such as Adderall, which is used to treat A.D.H.D., made those medications hard to get. The settlement with distributors appears to have tightened supplies even more.
Yupp the DEA purposefully fucks with the supply chain which, like this article we are commenting on shows, drives people to the black market. That same black market that the DEA is given a blank check to help "take care of".
The war on drugs is just shit urgh. Fucking over people's lives, both directly ("you put something in your body that the government didnt approve of so suffer"), and indirectly ("other people put this stuff in their body in ways we don't approve of, so even though with doctor's suggestion we have decided you're allowed to have a little bit for medical reasons and hence know it is probably vital you have it, we're just going to make it difficult, frustrating, or impossible to get and ruin big parts of your life in case you're secretly using it in ways we dont approve of") nya
It's wrecking people's lives by presumption of guilt - or at least, not presumption of innocence - for a stupid "crime" (where at least some of the committers are also likely to be self medicating ADHD lmao).
I have ADHD (and have medication for it, though i dont use it 100% of the time every day, but do have it most times). I have methylphenidate, which is a bit different to adderal though its still a stimulant.
Honestly the side effects are not great (really don't understand why someone would have this recreationally at any higher dose), but I don't actually give a shit if soneone does consume it either recreationally or for uni work (though stimulants in non adhd people worsen problem solving skills while on it, but the fact people use it for studying and still benefit really to me illustrates a problem with the way things are taught and assessed as well as the high sociopolitical pressure for grades) >.<.
I actually get a bit irritated sometimes, cause a lot of adhd folks see these shortages and blame "illegal users" rather than bullshit war on drugs policy that violates bodily autonomy.
At least as far as I am concerned I dont think people using these things illegally is "wrong" - I don't see why it's any of my business even if I don't think it's the greatest idea or get why given the side effects (might be a bit different for adderal since it has some slightly different effects to what I have nya) - especially when some of them may be self-medicating, as per this article.
If you do have ADHD and feel you need help, there are non-scheduled pharmaceuticals available as well. My daughter is on Qelbree which isn't perfect, but it works pretty well. And you don't have to worry about people abusing it making the supply run out.
Those don't work for everyone. Me, for example.
No medication works for everyone.
Thanks! My husband has been talking about getting back on Adderall for his ADHD, but he doesn't really want to go through all the hassle. I'll tell him about this.
I don’t know if the same thing is happening with the XR but if the IR worked for your husband it might be a good alternative. I recommend Vyvance, it was recently approved for generic. Still a bit pricy but it’s longer acting with less of the unbearable side effects.
Vyvanse is also having a shortage, caused in part by people not being able to get Adderall switching over. It's not as bad as it was a few months ago (we called around and couldn't find a pharmacy with a 30 day supply within a 2 hour radius) but they're still having trouble getting enough, especially at the higher doses. Source: I literally talked to a pharmacist about this today when I went to pick up my other random-ass stimulant. My doctor told me to just keep asking them about it every month haha.
Not even generic?
Yep
I'll mention this to him as well.
Now to convince him to go to the doctor...
Oh yeah, initial intake is tough not to mention finding a doc
We both used to see the same doctor, but she retired, and ever since then neither one of us wants to go lol
I don’t want to discount Vyvanse at all because it has a lot of advantages but it made me extremely paranoid and even more impulsive than I usually am
If anyone needs help procuring their medications shoot me a DM and I'll help you get hooked up with my friend the dead pirate Robert.
as you wish
My ass would probably see one of these "study help" posts and reach out to the person, thinking I'm going to do a good deed by helping someone with their college assignments
Is there another shortage going on?
Another? You mean the same one that has been going on for over a year now?
I was able to get my scrips filled for like the last 6 or 7 months
I'm not trying to predict the future but, if the problem about fentanyl and opioids in general comes from the misuse of Oxycodone, I don't want to tell "I said it" when a bunch of people be hooked to crystal meth.
Stimulant medications have been around for a long time. ADHD patients that are untreated have a higher risk of developing a substance abuse problem. ADHD patients taking stimulants have a risk of substance abuse that is on par with the rest of the population. Prescription stimulants generally have low risk of abuse. I'm an addiction researcher.
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