Basically all my friends take Adderall. It's sort of fine? I mean, it's not like all of them are on the heroin or something. And as far as I can gather, most of the effects of The Ivy Speed, as I like to call it, are internal-by which I mean, I can't always tell! I wouldn't know. (Though I can tell when you're writing on Adderall, yes I can. That is reason #52 why I hate it. All that focusing really does something to your syntax. Something bad!) Still, I hate it, and find it boring, and I hate its massive over-use in young people (reason #17) though it's totally okay that you use it, and I am in a very glassy house over here as a smoker, which is probably way, way more socially and ethically annoying. But the 84th reason I hate your Adderall comes from the recent Society of Toxicology annual meeting, by way of NPR today.
Because you drop one of your little pills in my house with your fumbling, amped-up hands and it could be CURTAINS for the cat. (Curtains I say!) "Right now, Adderall is probably one of the top three human drugs that the poison control center gets calls about for cats," it turns out. Your enjoyable little habit = Cat Death!
And?
Most poisonings cases that the ASPCA's center learns about involve dogs, [toxicologist Sharon] Gwaltney-Brant says, because they're fairly indiscriminate about what they'll eat. Not cats. Out of curiosity, they might sample a pill or capsule – but seldom finish it, she says. As soon as they bite in and discover its bland or even objectionable flavor, they tend to walk away.Except when it comes to Adderall XR. Cats not only bite in but readily finish every bit. This suggests, she says, that there's something about it that cats find unusually enticing.
And that's bad, because a single 20 milligram capsule could kill the average size cat.
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1. Weird. Is Adderall sweet like anti-freeze? Are kitties just natural tweakers? (We have no Adderall about, but a load of Provigil. I don't take the Provigil anymore, since, while I found its speediness occasionally useful, I found its "focussing" effects overrated to non-existent.)
2. My parents' dog at my birth control pills once when I was home from college. The vet laughed and said there was nothing to worry about, except if it had been a girl doggie it might have bled some. Fun!
Yup, something about the XR beads tastes sweet when crushed. (I actually handed my Adderall back to my shrink because it was way too much fun. Which is probably the only grownup thing I've ever done, ever)
Cats also fond of cocaine:
http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a73182/dohertys-pet-cat-took-cocaine.html
OMG I hate him so much.
Does anyone have two Adderall I can have?
I just direct-messaged you
I would like to know more specifics regarding the detrimental effects of Adderall on writers' syntax!
I'm more curious as to how it makes people in Brooklyn write like assholes.
Well, there's a good start right there!
Yeah, I am worried that my syntax reveals I am an Adderall user, instead of the truth, which is that I am tired all the time.
As a law student, Adderall really drives me to despair. Maybe everyone else is taking it? That's certainly how it seems, especially on the internet! And maybe it really is a zero-sum game where everyone else's increased productivity comes at my expense, and maybe I really ought to be devoting even more of my time to studying to keep up in this horrible, horrible world.
You can make it through law school without Adderall, and with some leisure time to spare--I promise (based on experience).
And as an English teacher who has worked with the mentally disabled, the gifted, adults of basic literacy and ubér professionals, EFL and ESL students, and who has learned to diagnose whatever the hell is up with anyone through their writing.....believe me...NO ONE writes better on drugs (even antihistimines.) They may write more. They may think they write better. But they write shit. Do your best and then go out for those beers after. By the way, by honing your writing skills, you'll learn to think a lot better than the pill babies.
Cat the Cat has a Cindy Crawford mole! (my cat does too)
The really sad thing is, what animal could use Adderall MORE than a cat? I mean, have you seen cats?
Right, would it kill them to be a little more focused? Oh, right, never mind.
I have seen cats!
Thank god for Adderall because if I never got any I would have never made it through college. See there I was unable to study, I'd even sit down with the books and try to read them but I couldn't because my brain was a mess and it was all unstructured to me. It's like I couldn't pick up the information. So I used to sadly try to cram and it would never work out and I flunked out my whole first semester this way, that + a bad case of mono and some alcoholism to boot. Finally at the end of second semester, the psychiatrist made a modest recommendation to me and I ended up with my first Adderall prescription. I'll never forget the kind of academic machine that turned me into. I was taking a math theory course at the time, and I went to the extra help session at about 4pm on a Tuesday. I sat down with the work, asked the professor a couple of questions, and proceeded with my studies even after the professor had left the session. I was so determined to finish that work (for which I severely lacked prerequisite knowledge up to that point) that I just stayed until I finished everything. And when I finally walked outside to head home, it was two in the morning. I wound up passing that semester and getting on Dean's List soon afterward. Adderall definitely helps me work. It also helps me write a lot. Sometimes I hate when I have these long unedited unbroken sections of text that I write when I'm on Adderall, but as long as I am ahead of the game on my schedule, I can always go back to it and edit it later. Sometimes I choose not to do that, though. I'm sure it's not a big deal.
//or maybe it's just induced mania, eh?
Ugh I wish I could handle Adderall. The last time I took one I was up for 2.5 days straight. Though I lost about 10lbs it took me weeks to get over it.
Snorted it once and went to a bar. It was a very focused night of drinking! In fact, too focused, so I split. Ppl, it ain't coke.
If I were on Adderall, I'd be too focused to constantly surf the web.
But if I ever get a cat I'll be sure to leave some laying around.
It can also have the effect that you would maniacally surf the entire web, making sure not miss any corner of the web, until you hit the end, stop, no more web. Or yeah, you could get work done.
See, I have taken it and then dicked around on the internet all day, VERY INTENTLY.
I have different friends than you. Really really different friends.
No kidding, although there may be a lot the other suburban PTO moms aren't telling me.
Are there any Adderall studies on bears?
Why would chubby bearded gay guys need to be in an Adderall study?
Because some of them have ADHD?
And don't share needles with your cat, either.
Look, I am not going to leave her hanging when I am low on needles, okay?
Long term effects besides bad prose and dead cats are?
More importantly: Cats like thing => Thing bad.
The underlying truth is "cats get into stuff that is dangerous to them just to drive you insane." At least, that's what my cat-owning friends tell me. I'm too tightly wound for cats.
curtains + cat = not all bad
It's a dog-eat-drugs world.
Maybe they should go with Vyvance?
I have never heard of this medication. Can I get it in Mexico?
Will i be more focused?
Do I NEED to be more focused in Mexico? No... but still.
Happy to report that what I have gotten out of reading this article and the ensuing comments is that now I really want to try Adderall.
sometimes trying to write feels like having your face ground into a broken mirror while rats eat your liver and your mom tells you you suck. so i can understand the desire to take a pill to make that feeling stop. or take several of them. in fact, why am i not taking these pills?
Adderall will kill your cat. M&Ms could kill your dog. Life is dangerous. Deal.