My niece (16) is on amphetamines for her ADHD, and as skeptical as I was, that shit works. On her medication, she is an honor roll student. Off her medication, she can barely manage to dress herself. The horror is, that with the war on drugs and the opiod crisis, I have a hard time securing her medication. Basically she is in a permentant catch 22: because of the potencial for abuse of this medication, they will only give her 30 day supply at a time. And they can’t begin the paperwork for the next 30 days until her current supply is consumed, and it takes about 5 days for all the paperwork to be in place, and they still only give 30 days worth, meaning that I can’t get her any medication for those 5 days. She has to go through amphetamines withdrawal every 30 days, for 5 days.
And I’ve been unable to figure out a way around it. The only options I can think of are:
- Buying it illegally from the black market (off the street)
- Robbing the pharmacy
- Let her life go into the toilet every 30 days
I’ve taken to trolling Child Protective Services by calling them every month and reporting myself for the crime of child neglect because I failed to secure the medication prescribed to her by her doctor (which is a crime here).