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Re:Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug... by munk-a on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:35PM (#35432945)
If we're still talking about ADHD medications then... I have no idea where you're coming from. ADHD medications are very tightly controlled - if you accidentally double dose a few times and need an early fill you're going to get grilled (or even denied) by the pharmacist. There is a small margin for error but for the most part people using ADHD medications get precisely what they need to get to the next drug refill and not a pill more.
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Re:Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug... by operatingthetan on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:59PM (#35434432)
> if you accidentally double dose a few times and need an early fill you're going to get grilled (or even denied) by the pharmacist

That's not a thing. Nobody is getting grilled coming in early for their stimulant medications. They just say "come back in a couple days" and "have a nice day." I've filled multiple stimulant meds in a period of 2 weeks from the same doc and same pharmacist. Neither care (I dumped out a drug that had side effects so I needed something else).

If people double up, after they run out they just don't have pills for a few days until they get another fill.

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Re:Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug... by munk-a on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:24PM (#35443003)
That's honestly pretty much what I said: if you run out and need to refill early it's a struggle. A lot of ADHD medications come with strong withdrawl symptoms so "don't have pills for a few days" for me will mean... day 1: sleep for like twenty hours straight and miss work, day 2: have massive headaches all day and miss work, day 3+: maybe be able to attend work? Certainly struggle to actually perform my job duties.

So running out of meds is something that's highly disruptive to my life and I'll always try and minimize gaps if they do occur.

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Re:Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug... by operatingthetan on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:05PM (#35445856)
>That's honestly pretty much what I said

You said " Nobody is getting grilled coming in early for their stimulant medications" ?

Okay then.

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Re:Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug... by asdff on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:41PM (#35446224)
It's not that they are double dosing, its that the doctor is expecting them to be on this stuff 100% of the time but they only feel the need to take it when they are in the library studying or for certain classes, and there's no sense in taking it on the weekends when they are doing laundry or binge drinking (although snorting adderall while drunk is not that uncommon). So you end the month with extra by the time you can refill.
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