Posted by elanor roosevelt on January 5, 2007, at 19:36:59
In reply to Re: stimulants as antidepressents, posted by med_empowered on January 4, 2007, at 23:15:33
I think the whole war-on-drugs thing recast stimulants are dangerous and addictive, where before the medical community had noted a dependence problem, but also saw that there were very real benefits from the meds. Now that Adderall is around and is seen as "medicine" first and "amphetamine/controlled substance" second, I suspect that more docs are (or will be) using stims in depression. Plus, there's that new ritalin patch, and there's work underway on less abusable forms of dexedrine so...I think we may well see a resurgence of stims-for-depression rx-ing.Yes, and I am on the "medicinal" Adderall
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