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# adderall
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I was prescribed adderall a few years ago, but stopped because of
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the side effects (trouble sleeping and bad dreams from what I can
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remember). Fast forward to about a month ago, and I was having a lot of
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trouble focusing. I stumbled upon the old adderall pills, and because
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nothing can ever go wrong, took them.
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The effects were great, so I went to a psychiatrist to try to get a
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prescription. I was successful and and got some new pills.
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From left to right: old pills, new pills, and extra bonus pills (pure
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amphetamine salts) that aren't relevant. The old pills have "adderall
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xr" printed on them (are brand name) and the new ones say "ELI-511"
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(manufactured from "elite laboratories"). Both of the doses are are
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10mg. The new pills were clearly visually different, but I assumed that
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adderall was tightly regulated so they'd have the same effect.
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The effects were *noticably* different. I tried taking the new pills one
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day then the old pills on another, and it was almost like two different
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medications.
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I did a bit of precursory research to see if it was only me and found
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some people grumbling about how it's a tiktok trend and mass hysteria,
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except that I have never used tiktok in my life.
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Searching for the brand name, it seems
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like there are recurring problems with elite labs
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([one](https://rd.celery.eu.org/r/ADHD/comments/164zo38/elite_pharmaceutical_adderall/),
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[two](https://rd.celery.eu.org/r/ADHD/comments/15tzbkk/generic_adderall_xr_from_elite_laboratories/),
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[three](https://rd.celery.eu.org/r/ADHD/comments/cwgshb/generic_adderall_switch_teva_to_elite/)).
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The descriptions (especially "it feels like sleep deprevation" and "it
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makes me jittery") matches my experience pretty well! Every once in a
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while, I felt like I was going to have a heart attack.
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## going further
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todo: self blinded trials
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## notes
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to look at:
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- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35111061
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall
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- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/12/722216512/bottle-of-lies-exposes-the-dark-side-of-the-generic-drug-boom
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