Posted by BekkaH on July 18, 2002, at 1:06:42
In reply to MY NEW PSYCHIATRIST DOESN'T LIKE DEXEDRINE. . ., posted by DiscoPuppy on July 15, 2002, at 16:10:07
It's probably just the stigma of Dexedrine and amphetamines that your doctor is scared of. Of course, Adderall has more amphetamines than Dex, but Adderall has been aggressively marketed as an ADD med, while Dex has been around for many years, and was used and abused for all sorts of NON-therapeutic purposes. If the makers of Dexedrine were smart, they'd make a high-tech, Concerta-like, sustained release version of Dexedrine, They'd repackage it and RENAME it. How about calling it DEXADDAL? They could spend millions of dollars on ad agencies and PR
people to advertise how effective it is for ADD, treatment-resistant depresssion, antidepressant augmentation, etc., and then it would become socially acceptable and doctors wouldn't be so scared to prescribe it.
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