Nick showed his prescription Adderall bottle, which prompted a chatter to say:
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...To which Nick replied that he hasn't been diagnosed ADHD, but he's pretty sure he has it.
Nick revealed he's acquired an Adderall (legal meth) prescription for his """ADHD""" to be taken as needed. It's currently speculated that Nick is abusing this prescription as a replacement for the substances he had to give up due to his probation.
So, Nick managed to bribe some strip mall doctor, or better yet, one of those really shady "pay us $120 and we'll diagnose you with anything and provide the prescription online" places that does e-prescribing to give him ADHD meds without an actual diagnosis? This is the only way to explain it because otherwise absolutely none of his story adds up.
I can tell you, for a GD fact, that
no adult
gets and starts a
legitimate Adderall prescription without the proper neuropsychological testing which you have to schedule, takes time, and then requires evaluation by a licensed neuropsychologist, along with appropriate symptomatology and documented life/work impairment, managed and very closely monitored by a licensed psychiatrist. And this is just for a person without a legal history of stimulant abuse (cocaine is a stimulant). For someone with a stimulant abuse history they would literally try every single non-stimulants based treatment, which would take many, many months of proven treatment failure, Even at that point it would be started at the lowest reasonable dose for an adult (which is 20 mg for Adderall XR) and be monitored with piss testing to prove that the person is taking it as prescribed. Also, if the bottle didn't say Adderall XR or it wasn't a capsule, he absolutely paid someone for the Rx with no questions asked. No doctor, under any circumstances, would prescribe the IR (Immediate Release) version of Adderall to a known stimulant abuser since it has the absolute highest abuse and diversion potential. The absolute shadiest part of the whole this is the PRN (As Needed) usage. It is very rarely prescribed that way, and that is absolutely NOT the complete sig (the sig is what is called the directions for the prescription). At a minimum the sig for Adderall XR for an adult just starting the med with the very rare instruction "As Needed" would be "1 20mg Cap PO qAM PRN, No More Than One 20 mg Cap QD", which would translate as "One 20mg Capsule By Mouth In The Morning As Needed. No More Than One 20mg Capsule Per Day". No legitimate PRN prescription is ever without the second part of the prescription where they give a daily total that can be either an amount in milligrams (mg) or in total number of capsules/tablets/pills that can be taken. Any pharmacy would flag a PRN prescription without that second part as an incomplete sig and would not fill it until they contact the prescriber to provide the missing information.
Also, for someone with a high abuse potential, such a Nick, Adderall wouldn't even be a first, or really even a second choice for a stimulant. They'd start him on Ritalin which is harder to abuse and doesn't have nearly the same euphoria potential as Adderall. Even if they didn't want to use Ritalin. For someone with high abuse and diversion potential, they would likely put him on Vyvanse since as a prodrug (a precursor that is converted to the active medication in the body) it would be much harder to abuse. Adderall would be a 3rd choice stimulant at best,
So, overall, Nick's story doesn't pass even one whiff of the sniff test for a legitimately obtained Rx.
I know that Mr. "Word Games" will try to manipulate the word "legitimate", and in this context it means someone who has been properly tested and diagnosed by a neuropsychologist and has their ADHD medication actively managed by a licensed and board certified psychiatrist in their state of residence. Any other type of Rx for Schedule II stimulant medications for an established junkie would not meet the definition of legitimate because that would mean that the Rx was issued or maintained by someone who is less than qualified to administer such medication in the given situation and/or has a less than complete patient history of previous stimulant abuse by the patient.