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Since fen phen and other dangerous, but legal, diet pills were taken off the market, you really don’t hear much about diet pills. A lot of other prescription drugs are in the news every day - painkillers like OxyContin, for example - but diet pills don’t make headlines. Nevertheless, there’s a huge number of people taking Adderall and other weight loss drugs, and plenty of them need addiction help.

Adderall, although only approved for ADHD and narcolepsy, is frequently used to lose weight and may be even prescribed by some doctors for that purpose. Sales of Adderall, along with other amphetamine-based drugs like Concerta and Straterra, have doubled from 4.2 million to to 9.5 million in the last five years. Are there really twice the number of people out there with ADHD or narcolepsy? I don’t think so.

What I do know is that Adderall is highly addictive and there’s a lot of people out there who are going to need addiction help when they try to get off it.

A friend of mine was taking diet pills, prescribed by her doctor. I asked her about it - since she works in the natural health care field it seemed kind of wierd. She told me nothing else has worked for her. So she took the drugs. I don’t know which pills she took but within a couple of months of her stopping them she had gained back all the weight she’d lost.  Fortunately, she didn’t stay on them too long and she didn’t need addiction help to get off them. Although I’m sure she had some problems with it.

If you can’t lose weight through diet and exercise, there’s something wrong. You should check out allergies, hormonal imbalances, nutritional deficiencies and so on with your doctor. Whatever he finds, you can be sure it’s not going to be Adderall deficiency.

Don’t risk your life and your health taking legal speed like Adderall. If you or someone you care about is taking Adderall or similar drugs, get them the addiction help services they need. And then, if they were taking the drugs for weight loss, find out what’s really going on with the body.