If someone uses ADHD medications
and they dont have ADHD what will happen?
This is for a report
so i need sources
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thank you Your question is hard to answer with sources the way it is posed.
If I were you I would look at the side effects of ADHD meds first.
From personal experience I can tell you that many girls used ADHD meds (Dexedrine and Desoxin) in the 1960's and 1970's for supposable weight problems with a doctor's approval and prescription. However, many of the girls that told me this were not overweight and some bordered on too skinny. Truth is, that ADHD meds causes weight loss due to the fact that you lose your appetite and in fact, while on the drug you can have such a distaste for food that you literally feel nauseated by merely thinking about or placing food in your mouth. Eventually people get use to this and can often tolerate some food while medicated but still not much.
I was diagnosed with ADHD without the hyperactivity in my early 30's and started taking Dexedrine later to replace it with Ritalin then Adderall. I no longer take meds.
My four children have ADHD without hyperactivity as well and have been on a full variety of ADHD meds. At this time, none are on them as they are all adults and three do not have insurance. My youngest son was always medicated more than the others. While on medications he was quite irritable, his growth was stunted, and he became quite hyper when the meds were wearing off. He is still a very depressed person but has grown a lot physically since stopping the medications. He graduated from high school without meds for the final three years of his public school education. My youngest daughter was on ADHD meds for a short time along with an antidepressant. She ended up with psychosis NOS (no other symptoms) for a month and was hospitalized. The meds were removed immediately. She is psychosis free now.
We were never addicted to ADHD meds although that is something that many believe happens. In fact, more often than not we had a habit of forgetting to take the medication for days.
However, people who do not have ADHD that take ADHD meds do it for different reasons. They usually have a tendency to want to get high, enhance their awakened time and perform better academically under great academic stress such as college/work load situations and some still want the weight loss effect that these meds cause.
A person with ADHD diagnosis often doesn't like the effects of medication as they feel their creativity is stifled on the med and that the med forces them to focus on things not of interest to them. The medication makes you lose your appetite, your sleep pattern is shot, your nerves are on edge especially when the medication is wearing off and it can bring on paranoia and depression leaving you to feel that your day was ruined.
People who take ADHD meds and do not have ADHD appear to be people who have a greater need to please others at the detriment of their own pleasure and/or believe that the heightened state is eurphoric (the pleasure of being high).
There are many side effects of ADHD meds that people are not aware of or that are played down by pharmaceutical industries and physicians that can do harm to both an ADHD person and a non ADHD person.
ADHD medications speed up all of your body functions such as your heart and the aging process. It effects your liver and can destroy it if not monitored. It causes depression, anxiety, and paranoia.
Other side effects are severe headaches, sleep disturbances and/or sleep apnea.
Strattera was taken off the market do to fatalities and severe liver toxicity. Adderall was taken off the market in Canada due to fatalities. Ritalin is more prone to make you paranoid and anxious (giving you extreme jitters and sometimes tics when it is wearing off). Dexedrine is not used much anymore as it was said to be addictive (there again, I took Dexedrine and found it not to be addictive at all). Desoxin, was a drug that was said to be abused by drug addicts and is not used as far as I know. Dexedrine is used rarely as it was in the same class as Desoxin.
College students are the ones most likely to use ADHD drugs without a diagnosis. They simply buy or borrow some from a student with the diagnosis.
This site gives you the dangers of Ritalin:
http://www.chiropracticresearch.org/NEWS...
I'm sorry I cannot give you another source for your particular question but as I said before I would simply try researching for the side effects of these drugs. I forgot to mention that ADHD drugs slow a person with ADHD down so they can concentrate. I believe that people who do not have ADHD like the "speed" effect that it gives them.
Hope I helped some. I've read that using stimulants used in treating ADHD will give you a "speed" effect. It doesn't react the same way in a person who does NOT need them as it does in a person who does.
Search for the words "academic doping". Studies have shown that pediatricians are prescribing the stimulants to children whose parents want them to do good in school even though the child doesn't need it. |
