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by ClassyJacket 3431 days ago
I wish there was a legal way to try Adderall. It's not even legal in Australia by prescription, and since I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, there's basically no chance I'll ever even get try the similar dextroamphetamine.

I'd love to see what effect it had on my focus and productivity. I've had a few amazing days before, but they're few and far between. Being able to switch that on with a careful controlled dose would be fascinating and useful.

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Adderall is basically mixed dextroamphetamine salts, there isn't a big difference between generic dextroamphetmine salts and Adderall despite what the drug manufacturer likes to say.

the new hotness is lisdexamfetamine, which is just dextroamphetamine bound to lysine, making it a prodrug as your liver needs to cleave the lysine off first. reduces abuse potential.

I wouldn't lose hope, though. You might as well lose hope if you mean free and clear legal access to dextroamphetamine.

but, there are illegal options if you want to get an idea of what it's like.

I'm not recommending you go buy street amphetamine, I'm not even sure what street amphetamine is like in Australia.

you might have access to methamphetamine instead of amphetamine sulfate which can come as paste or powder as opposed to crystalline chunks/powder like methamphetamine tends to be, it's a regional difference.

The point is you could, theoretically and hypothetically speaking, acquire street amphetamine + a 20 dollar milligram scale.

weigh out and try a low dose (~20mg, orally) after breakfast first thing in the morning to experience the similar effects to those that dextroamphetamine would give you.

Would it be legal? No. Theoretically though, people use the internet itself to acquire these things, cutting out a lot of the risk that comes with buying drugs the more traditional way.

That's just a theory of mine, though. Hypothetically speaking. Allegedly bitcoin and secondary wallets are involved.

Mark my words, the economic value of ADHD diagnoses (in the recapture of the economically disenfranchised/burnt out, the money to be earned by the patent-holders et al, and pressure from parents/etc) will change that sooner than you might think, if not necessarily strictly in the form of adderall (for instance, bupropion is another phenethylamine [and antidepressant] that is legal in Australia)