Addiction to psychiatric medications is a huge problem, especially drugs like Ritalin and Adderall that are a drug of choice for many college students. Psychiatric medication intervention is growing directly with the expansion of the DSM-IV or the .png)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This manual is really just a profit bible for Psychiatrists and Doctors nation wide who diagnose side effects of substance abuse, rather than diagnosing actual disorders. It is absolutely amazing when we are counseling families for a psychiatric medication intervention, that the person needing the intervention is on 7 different medications, has suicidal or sometimes, homicidal thoughts, and has become progressively worse under the care of the psychiatrist or doctor. The problem we see is that the medical professionals try to treat addiction with more medications, rather than calling upon a professional addiction counselor who understands addiction better than the doctor or psychiatrist. Psychiatric medication intervention is a difficult intervention that requires the substance abuser to enter a long detox, maybe even as long as two to four weeks just for the detox alone. Psychiatric medication intervention should always be performed by a professional followed by long term inpatient treatment.
Ritalin & Adderall Addiction Intervention
Addiction to Ritalin & Adderall and intervention has increased at an alarming rate. Young adults and college students alike steal their younger brother or sisters medications, then, crush up the pills and snort them to receive a high almost identical to crystal meth. Ritalin and Adderall are both potent pharmaceutical grade methamphetamine’s that nobody should be on especially children. However, until people change that the drug is available and abused. Most all of are Adderall intervention or Ritalin intervention are almost identical to crystal meth intervention. The user is up for days, dark circles under the eyes, increased heart rate, decreased cognitive functioning etc. The majority of abusers of psychiatric medications such as Ritalin or Adderall tell us they take the drug to help them think, study, or function better. When we show up fro the psychiatric medication intervention they are doing none of these things better, have made their lives worse, and have put the family in a state of panic. If the family does not step in with a psychiatric medication intervention before it is to late, their loved one could end up on street drugs like crack or meth. These drugs are a street version of the pharmaceuticals Adderall and Ritalin, which are methamphetamine’s.
Psych Med Intervention Program
Psych Med’s are dangerous enough even when not being abused. When substance abusers start to crush up the medications and snort them, they face a very serious addiction. Families that call us for psych med intervention are not always aware that their loved ones are many times mixing medications with other drugs including alcohol. If you research the drugs Ritalin or Adderall from a pharmaceutical stand point, even the manufacturers of the drug can not tell you the long term effects of the drugs. If your loved one is addicted to or just on psychiatric medications that are not making them better, please call about our psych med intervention program. Almost every person who we have brought to treatment who was on psychiatric medication, even taking when taking them as prescribed, as become better off without the medications with traditional treatment practices found in many treatment centers today.