That garbage is worse than speed. I took it for a few weeks and it spaced me out and caused severe hyper focus. It would occur at random times, putting me in a day dream stage where I would lose minutes just staring off into nothing. Id rather have attention issues than be on drugs all day that have the same or worse side effects than street drugs.
I have heard of that reaction. It, of course, is not very common. Sorry that happened.
I actually take it (80 mg) for an off-label purpose entirely unrelated to ADHD. Can’t even tell I’m on it except it does improve the symptom somewhat.
More from Dr. Frances:
Many people thought I was being overly optimistic when recently I predicted that the ADHD fad had finally peaked and that we would gradually return to more appropriate levels of diagnosis (perhaps the previous 3 percent instead of the current 11 percent). My optimistic prediction was not based on naivete about Pharma greed or physician carelessness. My hopes rested on the possibility that there would be a backlash of parental and professional protest as it becomes clearer and clearer how absurdly overused is the ADHD diagnosis and the stimulant medication. ….. The CDC report will certainly fuel that outrage and help stimulate a backlash, but at what price to the babies?
So where is the parental and professional outrage?