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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I wasn’t clear.  I get why they can’t carry it in their purse and it has to stay locked in the clinic. It’s hard to have a prescription that will not refill until Saturday, which must be delivered to the school before 1 pm Monday when my kid needs it.  When I work and the school is 1/2 hour each way. Every month. I wishI could tell the nurse my 16-18 year old is bringing in 15 pills, and my kid could carry them to the clinic instead of me. [/quote]

If the pharmacies only allow you to pick up one week of pills at a time, then that is a medicine that most certainly should only be delivered to the clinic by a parent.[/quote]

???? It’s a standard 30 day dose. They just don’t refill until you are down to 1-2 pills.  So ther is not at lot of room for error. It must be picked up the day it refills, even if I have a lot of other things to do after work, with kids.  And my kid never has extra, so I must take it school the day after I pick it up at the pharmacy.  It would be great if I could hand it to my HS junior to drop off at the clinic before class, rather than having to go myself. [/quote]

Your post was worded as if you had to pick up the prescription on Sundays, then deliver it to school on Mondays.[/quote]

They won’t refill until you are down to 1-2 pills. If this happens on a Saturday, then I have to take the refill to school Monday or he runs out. If it refills on Wednesday, I have to take it to the school Thursday or maybe Friday.  I must pick it up at the pharmacy the day it comes due.  I much st deliver it within 1-2 days to the school.  I can’t head from work to a kid’s band concert at 7, and not get home with the kid until 9:30, because I must pick up the Adderall at the pharmacy the day it is due. It’s crazymaking. [/quote]

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