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Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adderall. But it's meth

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Re: Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adderall. But it's meth

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Post by epgui »

dehrmann wrote: post #11

Isn't adderall basically prescription meth, anyway?

No.

Adderall is normally prescribed in the XR formulation (meaning it's an extended/slow release capsule), and has amphetamine as the active ingredient.

Methamphetamine is a different molecule altogether, and typically it's not packaged in slow-release capsules.

Yes, methamphetamine is structurally related to amphetamine, but you shouldn't make the mistake to think they are interchangeable. Very often the difference between two very similar molecules is the difference between life and death (for a classic example, look up the two enantiomers of thalidomide).

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Post by epgui »

uxp100 wrote: post #3

Obviously not good, I’m just being a little glib. If correctly dosed I suppose people would be getting a somewhat more effective medication than they thought they were getting. Those who were getting caffeine or ibuprofen, not so much.

Why do you think methamphetamine would be more effective than amphetamines?

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Post by soudiere »

madars wrote: post #6
oooyay wrote: post #4

Can anyone explain what is going on with the Adderall supply?

DEA has a set cap for amphetamine production and demand is higher than the cap.

Nah fam, this is fallout from Purdue pharma litigation, distributors are figuring out how to shield their future liability.

Have a read here from people who work in the industry https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/16dur21/stimulant...

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Post by burningChrome »

Areibman wrote: post #7

I just came back from Puerto Vallarta, and it's shocking how pharmacies advertise their drugs to tourists. I'm talking massive signs with every prescription med under the sun-- Adderall, Xanax, Retinol, you name it. All next to the HGH and testosterone posters featuring unreasonably muscular bodybuilders.

My roommates in college were amateur body builders and used to go down to Mexico in the early aughts to get testosterone and bring it back since they were starting to clamp down on the abuse of it here.

They stopped doing it when two things happened.

A) One of their buddies who they lifted with got a counterfeit batch of T and got really sick and spent two weeks in the hospital.

B) Some of the guys at the gym were bragging they were getting T from Mexico too, but would buy it with counterfeit $100 super bills they got somewhere in Vegas (still have no idea how they got them) and then would bring their T back and sell it for a huge profits to other bodybuilders who didn't want to risk getting caught at the border. They eventually did got caught and did several years in a Mexican jail.

Now you just have to go to your doctor and tell him your sex drive is down or you have ED and they'll put on you on TRT pretty quickly without all the fuss. Its pretty standard now for older men to be on a TRT regiment.

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Post by blovescoffee »

The headline is so odd! Adderall is not sold in Mexico and the article mentions this several times. It's of course unfortunate someone would buy the wrong drug. The bigger headline is buried which is that people mistakenly bought fentanyl instead of other painkillers (which are actually legally prescribed). This is a much more deadly mistake.

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Post by 55555 »

bqmjjx0kac wrote: post #14
dehrmann wrote: post #11

Isn't adderall basically prescription meth, anyway?

Sure, in the same way that rubbing alcohol is basically vodka. I'm sure you didn't mean anything by it, but it's frustrating to hear this line over and over as someone who needs these prescriptions to function.

Have you ever tried meth? I feel like you’re demonizing meth. There is someone reading this who needs meth to function and you’re comparing their prescription to rubbing alcohol.

Meth has higher user ratings on Drugs.com for treating ADHD than dextroamphetamine or Adderall etc have. If it weren’t for the side effect profile and potential for abuse, I reckon it would be the mainline treatment.

I empathize and understand what you mean though. When others say you’re basically on meth, that must not feel good.

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

Lammy wrote: post #5

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This is the weirdest, worst take I've read today. Yes, meth can be sold by prescription in the US.

Why you think that's relevant to a Mexican pharmacy selling meth as a completely different medication, and then having the audacity to call it "scare-mongering", is truly bizarro to me. I mean, fentanyl is commonly used as a prescription medication in the US. Would it be "scare mongering" if a journalist reported that a pharmacy sold fentanyl as Xanax without mentioning fentanyl can be used by prescription in the US? Why do you think that even matters?

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