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Any thoughts on dual diagnosis and prescribing medications to difficult child's?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 517189" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>My difficult child has mental health issues and addiction issues. She has been on medications for years and it didn't stop the substance abuse. In fact, she used the medications to get high and made money by selling them so she could buy alcohol.</p><p></p><p>She was allowed to take Celexa (anti-depressant) in rehab and the psychiatrist added lamictal when she went to the halfway house. She had been taking Adderall but is not taking that any more. I don't think she ever really needed it. I was furious to learn that the psychiatrist was still prescribing her Xanax even knowing that she was had been in rehab and was currently living in a halfway house. According to her he told her that the "gain was sometimes worth the risk." She says that she is not taking Xanax right now and has been passing the drug tests so I hope that she is telling the truth.</p><p></p><p>Nancy posted a great list of drugs broken into Class A, B and C that tells addicts what drugs to never take (C), sometimes under a doctor's orders (B), and C (okay for addicts). I'll look and see it I can find it for you.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 517189, member: 1967"] My difficult child has mental health issues and addiction issues. She has been on medications for years and it didn't stop the substance abuse. In fact, she used the medications to get high and made money by selling them so she could buy alcohol. She was allowed to take Celexa (anti-depressant) in rehab and the psychiatrist added lamictal when she went to the halfway house. She had been taking Adderall but is not taking that any more. I don't think she ever really needed it. I was furious to learn that the psychiatrist was still prescribing her Xanax even knowing that she was had been in rehab and was currently living in a halfway house. According to her he told her that the "gain was sometimes worth the risk." She says that she is not taking Xanax right now and has been passing the drug tests so I hope that she is telling the truth. Nancy posted a great list of drugs broken into Class A, B and C that tells addicts what drugs to never take (C), sometimes under a doctor's orders (B), and C (okay for addicts). I'll look and see it I can find it for you. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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