If you want to be sober, have ADD/ADHD and take meds how do you do it?

[Unregistered1111]

If you're an addict to drugs and alcohol and are trying to be sober and you have ADD/ADHD, how do you take your medication-either dexedrine or adderall without compromising your sobriety?

 

[neversickanymore]

Are you asking how to do it in the safest possible manor?

SL---TDS

 

[Black Rabbit of Inle]

Are you concerned about the urge to use them recreationally? Having someone you trust to dispense them as you need them can help overcome this.

 

[T. Calderone]

Hi RustedHalo, I like your analogy. It's sometimes difficult to take medications as directed that are abuseable, even harder for an addict.
A safe is a good idea, and better that someone else has to dole them out. Welcome to Bluelight!

 

[MrSquizz]

I would just say take the medication as prescribed. You're still clean in my eyes if you do that.

 

[PriestTheyCalledHim]

Take the medication as prescribed and do not abuse it. If you worry about abuse have someone who you trust keep the medication and give you the prescribed dose when it is needed.

 

[BlueHues]

I have ADD and am a long-time addict to just about every abusable class of drugs there is at one point or another. I would not be able to use Adderall, pretty much because I have no desire to use amphetamines without achieving a buzz, and prescribed amounts would only frustrate me. Also, after years of stimulant abuse, the threshold for me to slip into a borderline psychotic state is very slim. It sounds like the way you're doing it is the only way most addicts would be able to pull it off. Although, I've known people who were addicted to drugs like heroin and cocaine, who for some reason didn't feel compelled to abuse their ADD meds, so I guess your individual history and DOC could play a big role in whether or not you could handle dispensing the meds to yourself. I've also known people who abused drugs like Adderall but could leave a prescribed bottle of hydrocodone sitting there for months with no temptation.

For someone like me, unless it's something on the level of cough-syrup or antipsychotics, if it can be abused I'll probably abuse it at some point, if your definition of abusing drugs includes using them recreationally. Which for many in the recovery community, taking a few hits off a joint before a show is the same as shooting up in an alleyway as far as "relapse" goes....