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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You also have to hand carry Adderall as a parent (kid needs an early afternoon booster). Which is a PITA because it is so tightly regulated, you never have extras. So you pick it up from the pharmacy, and have to go to the school the next day to drop off.  Every month.  Rather than sending it in with your HS kid. I get that these are abused drugs, but I don’t always have an hour in the day to take it the next day for a kid who self administers because college next year.  The crazy thing is he turns 18 soon, and I will still have to take it myself. [/quote]

Adderall is not an emergency med so there is no reason for the kid to hand carry it at school, especially since it is so easily abused.[/quote]

DP. Except that taking it at school means interrupting a class every single day (often the same class, since you take it at the same time every day) to go to the clinic and get the dose, and it relies upon the kid to remember every day to go to the clinic and take the dose, which is counterproductive given the nature of ADHD. I can absolutely see not letting a kid hand-carry multiple doses to school on a single day (unless he was delivering a refill to the clinic upon arrival because he does take it there, and then it could be done with an email in advance from a parent to the clinic letting them know it's coming for accountability purposes), but the current system doesn't work very well either.

This is part of the reason we've kept out kid on an extended release medication even though there's a shorter-acting one that works better for him with a booster. There was too much breakdown in the system of him going to the clinic to take the booster every day, whether it was him forgetting, or him being late to a particular class too often because there's a back-up at the clinic, or the class has a test that day and he doesn't want to risk being late so he skips the booster etc.[/quote]

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