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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 19421" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I have a different take on it. I'd want her evaluated before being tried on stims and a family doctor won't do that. You can't know for sure that it's ADHD and stims are badly abused by teens. Not saying she'd go there, but my daughter, who is now 22, was deeply involved in the drug culture as a teen. She scared me out of my wits about ADHD drugs because they are used/abused so badly on the streets. Kids fake ADHD just to get them, and they are given out with very little regard! My daughter says her and her friends would crush them in pillcrushers and snort them to get high, either alone or with other drugs, and the most "popular" abusive ADHD medication is Adderall, which she stole from my son and sold for $10 a pill. She is ultra-honest about her drug use days now that she is clean. I had no idea how badly these medications are abused. I'd want to be 100% certain that my teen needed the medications first. And it's true that college kids have been popping stims for years to study for tests, ADHD or not. They make everyone attend better, but they can also cause problems. Since my daughter AND my son were both misdiagnosed (and both appeared to have ADHD), I am loathe to tell other parents to just ask for medication without having intensive testing. Something is in the family--the difficult child has problems--why risk triggering something that isn't there yet, since she is doing fairly well? When she goes to college what if she drinks and also takes stims? Just a few other things to think about. Trust me, until my daughter told me she'd used drugs, and then gave me the lowdown on them, I had no idea myself about these stims. I didn't understand the degree of thier abuse. The teens know how to fake ADHD to get the prescriptions. My daughter said, "There's a computer test you take, and you just flunk it on purpose, and they'll give you something." Bottom line: Don't diagnosis. yourself and take her to a neuropsychologist (I'd do that over a psychiatrist because ADHD is NOT a psychiatric disorder) and then weigh the pros and cons. If it were my kid, and it turned out she had ADHD which was not able to be contained with interventions, I would consider only Straterra. It's not a street drug. I wish you and your easy child lots of luck. It's hard when the "easy" one starts having problems!!! This is JMHO too, by the way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 19421, member: 1550"] I have a different take on it. I'd want her evaluated before being tried on stims and a family doctor won't do that. You can't know for sure that it's ADHD and stims are badly abused by teens. Not saying she'd go there, but my daughter, who is now 22, was deeply involved in the drug culture as a teen. She scared me out of my wits about ADHD drugs because they are used/abused so badly on the streets. Kids fake ADHD just to get them, and they are given out with very little regard! My daughter says her and her friends would crush them in pillcrushers and snort them to get high, either alone or with other drugs, and the most "popular" abusive ADHD medication is Adderall, which she stole from my son and sold for $10 a pill. She is ultra-honest about her drug use days now that she is clean. I had no idea how badly these medications are abused. I'd want to be 100% certain that my teen needed the medications first. And it's true that college kids have been popping stims for years to study for tests, ADHD or not. They make everyone attend better, but they can also cause problems. Since my daughter AND my son were both misdiagnosed (and both appeared to have ADHD), I am loathe to tell other parents to just ask for medication without having intensive testing. Something is in the family--the difficult child has problems--why risk triggering something that isn't there yet, since she is doing fairly well? When she goes to college what if she drinks and also takes stims? Just a few other things to think about. Trust me, until my daughter told me she'd used drugs, and then gave me the lowdown on them, I had no idea myself about these stims. I didn't understand the degree of thier abuse. The teens know how to fake ADHD to get the prescriptions. My daughter said, "There's a computer test you take, and you just flunk it on purpose, and they'll give you something." Bottom line: Don't diagnosis. yourself and take her to a neuropsychologist (I'd do that over a psychiatrist because ADHD is NOT a psychiatric disorder) and then weigh the pros and cons. If it were my kid, and it turned out she had ADHD which was not able to be contained with interventions, I would consider only Straterra. It's not a street drug. I wish you and your easy child lots of luck. It's hard when the "easy" one starts having problems!!! This is JMHO too, by the way. [/QUOTE]
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