Addictions Treatment Blog

Recent reports have surfaced that actress Lindsay Lohan was incorrectly diagnosed as having ADHD and put on a stimulant like Adderall. Her legal team may be using this incorrect diagnosis and prescription drug treatment as the cause for her erratic behavior in an effort to remove some of the responsibility from her.

However, as famed anti-psychiatric-drug Dr. Peter Breggin points out on MTV.com, drugs like Adderall create the same effects in people whether they have any diagnosis or not. Amphetamines are speed and if you give someone the drug long enough it will produce negative side effects and even dependency. In fact, Adderall addiction is a major problem in America today.

Many young people fake symptoms in order to obtain prescriptions for Adderall and other drugs simply because of the effect the speed produces, and many unsuspecting doctors actually believe that it works differently in people who have an ADHD diagnosis. Do they think the same thing about cocaine or methamphetamine? It's very close to be the same thing. Talk to some people who have attended a drug rehab for these types of addictions and see what they say.