I still haven't managed to sort myself out with that ADD assessment...I dig what peeps are saying about how unmedicated ADD/ADHD people will self medicate, and that the shrinks ought to understand that.
But my part of Australia is super-conservative. You can't even get a codeine tablet anymore unless you have terminal cancer, or so it seems.
Years ago there was a GP I used to see who (for some reason) was allowed to prescribe Dex. He felt it ameliorated alcoholism and other addictions. He wanted to try me on Dex but I said no because I was afraid that stims would make me drink even more ...
As it happens, Dex inhibits my alcohol use considerably.
Anyway this GP ended up getting struck off the register because dickheads took advantage of his willingness to prescribe Dex in order to sell them
illicitly.
But my part of Australia is super-conservative. You can't even get a codeine tablet anymore unless you have terminal cancer, or so it seems.
Years ago there was a GP I used to see who (for some reason) was allowed to prescribe Dex. He felt it ameliorated alcoholism and other addictions. He wanted to try me on Dex but I said no because I was afraid that stims would make me drink even more ...
As it happens, Dex inhibits my alcohol use considerably.
Anyway this GP ended up getting struck off the register because dickheads took advantage of his willingness to prescribe Dex in order to sell them
illicitly.