Originally posted by: beer
http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/myth_add_adhd.htm
I am not going to sit and debate this until I am blue in the face here. Every single person that I have known, from high school on later, has used aderall the same way that drug users use amphetamines. It is used to increase mental capacity and focus. Your situation may be different but I am speaking from MY personal experience, and this is MY opinion. I am somewhat pissed because heavy adderall users throw off my GPA with them fscking up the curves in most of my classes. It's a widespread drug (probably used more than pot here at Texas), and causes considerably more side effects than your run-of-the-mill DEA schedule two substances.
Adderall is an amphetamine, and a highly addictive one at that. The only difference between highly illegal meth and what you are giving your children is a single methyl group attached to the nitrogen. I am not going to debate the ethics of giving your child amphetamines for hyperactivity. Hyperactivity has always existed in most children for a long, long time and hasn't been diagnosed with dangerous substances.
The most amazing thing is, people make such a stint about aspartame, which is safe in normal uses. In normal situations adderall is still highly addictive.