Drug Side Effects: Adderall

Zach Troutman

Use for Adderall

• Adderall is a drug that is used to help treat ADD.• It allows you to concentrate longer and curbs

your appetite.• Adderall is one of the most frequently prescribed

and abused drugs on the market right now.• It can be easily obtained simply by visiting a

doctor and complaining of not being able to focus at all and poor grades.

• It is most often abused by college students and those looking to lose weight.

Physiology Behind It

• Adderall is a psychostimulant and uses many different ingredients to combine and increase the users dopamine and norepinephrin levels. The combination of drugs resulting in this make the user have more energy, sexual desire, better focus, and productivity. It is most often prescribed to children with ADD, ADHD, and obese people.

Most Common Side Effects

• Common side effects of Adderall usage or abuse include anorexia, dry mouth, chronic thirst, the development of sleeping disorders or generalized difficulty sleeping, chronic headaches or migraines, pain in the stomach, high blood pressure, sudden and unexplained weight loss, mood swings or other emotional changes, nausea with vomiting, sudden dizziness or fainting, a generalized feeling of weakness or tiredness, a sudden spike in heart rate, a higher risk of infections, unexplained fevers, heartburn, chest pains, and a slowing of growth in children.

Less Common Side Effects

• Suicidal thoughts or suicidal actions, sudden confusion or a feeling of displacement, a tightness in the chest with pain spreading throughout the back and the arms, heart palpitations, the inability to breathe or shortness of breath, feelings of depression or despair, changes in behavior such as becoming more aggressive or more shy, performing actions you do not recall or do not understand, experiencing visual, auditory, or sensory hallucinations, feeling restless or constantly having the need to move about, seizures or “black out” periods, a sudden rash or the development of hives, and uncontrollable bodily movements, commonly of the head, mouth, or appendages.

Deadly Side Effects

• It has a highly addictive nature.

• It acts as a serious drug and can be abused as one.

• When use of the drug is abused it can result in seizures, heart attacks, high blood pressure, stroke, and death.

Side Effects To Un-prescribed Users

• These side effects and risks are even higher when the drug is abused by people who are not prescribed it.

• This is mainly because doctors start their patients off on small doses to see how they will react to the drug.

• Because of this when someone doesn’t consult a doctor and know what does they are getting they are going in blind to taking the drug and can cause the user to go into shock.

• This makes it even more dangerous to use than the hard drugs we recognize as illegal because atleast when you are taking those you know the dose you are taking.

Side Effects If Combined With Other Drugs

• The drug also has many potentially dangerous contraindications.

• Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors, and many other common types of drugs if taken with Adderall can cause irreversible, permanent damage and may even be deadly in some instances.

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