ADHD Drug Risk to Young Teens

Defense lawyers for high school coach on trial for the death of 15-year-old football player Max Gilpin plan to claim ADHD drug Adderall could be to blame. Hari Sreenivasan reports.

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[lilbrowstalker]

So, the football coach wouldn't let these kids hydrate themselves or take a break in the scorching heat...and ADDERALL is to blame for this kids death? Um no. The coach is to blame. Adderall like many drugs can increase your blood pressure which probably played a role. High blood pressure, heavy exercise, intense heat, dehydration. So I love how they're trying to save the coach's ass by blaming adderall. So fucking typical.

[TheMohican77]

send the coach to jail, inhumane prick

[martyn580]

i am currently on concerta for 2 years now. It was today that i realized the devastating effects of it. these drugs rob you of your creativity, it puts you on a one track mind. Let me explain, its like i am jogging at a comfortable pace, and some guy in his car comes along and ties a rope around you an hits the gas..you are obviously not comfortable..but you are still being dragged along

[gravelandgrain100]

@TheDescentJatt -

the answer to your third question is that my doctor recommends an adderall holiday the days I don't work or go to school. I sleep later and have a better appetite on those days-and my body becomes less dependent on the med. I take IR Adderall 30mg, and this works very well for me.

As for the football player, this happens ALOT more than people might think. Coaches push the players-many who fall into the obese category in heat without water. Cardiac arrest from sunstroke.

[RocketmanRockyMatrix]

@2dansonfan Apparently you and Max Gilpin, the kid who died in this video, are both class 2 drug users.

[TheDescentJatt]

Do 50mg(arbitrary value) extended release and 50mg immediate release are equally harmful (either amphetamine or methylphenidate)? With immediate release we will fell more concentrated but for a short time and with time-release we feel comparatively less concentrated but for long time,right or wrong? I mean the (concentration*time) factor remains constant for a particular quantity of drug whether time-release or immediate release?

[TheDescentJatt]

• Does amphetamine/methylphenidate affect brain when taken over a long period?How long should be that period?how high should drug doses be 2 cause such damage? what about heart?

• These drugs r 'only' harmful bcoz we becum addicted nd start increasing d doses?Or they r still harmful when we keep on taking them bt don't raise d doses to dangerous levels?

• Wt if I try skipping doses nd take them only when I need them?nd not making habit of taking the everyday?like 2 days on drug and skip 1 so on?

[TheDescentJatt]

• Is Amphetamine more harmful or methylphenidate?

• How much high doses would be harmful?

• What would you suggest me if I suspect memory loss? And how can I check if I really do have memory loss or its just poor concentration that makes me forget stuff? I don't know if i really forget o.O

I 20 and take 20mg methylphenidate once a day ,and I don't feel it is benefiting me much :(

[msscott73]

@lilbrowstalker I agree that boy's brain was cooking in that helmet. The health human body can handle that type of workout at room temperature 96.8 degrees. Ninety-five degrees the temp was approximately the same as the body, a vary bad combo. He went too far.

[2dansonfan]

Adderall has nothing to do with this shit. I take it for my ADHD everyday. I play basketball but my coach lets me get fucking water!!