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In a society where chronic obesity runs rampant, life is becoming
faster and faster-paced, and medication is the solution to almost
everything, Adderall is becoming a prevalent off-label diet pill for many.

Adderall contains four different types of amphetamines and is often
called amphetamine mixed salts. It is normally prescribed to those
diagnosed with attention deficit disorder - with or without
hyperactivity - and narcolepsy.

Adderall may help develop focus amd concentration, as well as decrease
fatigue, but the side effects include loss of appetite, weight loss
and insomnia.

“After six hours after taking the drug, I would feel slightly groggy,
the way I sometimes get in the early afternoon when my morning coffee
wears off. But when I’d lie down for an afternoon nap, I couldn’t (go
to) sleep,” said Joshua Foer, a freelance writer for Slate Magazine
who took Adderall as an experiment.

Although the purpose of a drug may be to help someone focus, people
are taking the medication to experience the side effects.

“Amphetamines classically reduce hunger,” said professor Dee
Shepherd-Look, who has been teaching psychology since 1970 and works
at the parent-child interaction program at CSUN in Monterey Hall.
“People notice that many drugs have desirable side effects and start
using them for reasons that are not intended. This is called off-label
use.”

At the children’s clinic where Shepherd-Look does her practice, the
number two drug prescribed is Adderall, one position shy from Ritalin.

Adderall is FDA-approved for children with attention-deficit
disorders. It has not, however, been clinically tested for the use of
weight loss. Still, some physicians across the nation do prescribe the
drug to, in part, assist with weight loss.

“In my personal view point, there is overuse of Adderall,”
Shepherd-Look said. “It is over-prescribed and overused. Sometimes you
use the drug to treat something that should be treated with
psychological methods and not simply medication.”

According to CSUN dietician Ellen Bauersfeld, at least 50 percent of
students come in to lose weight. Hundreds of students visit the Klotz
Student Health Center hoping to be prescribed drugs that can help shed
pounds.

“There are many that have done crash diets, nutritionally inadequate
and not feeling well,” Bauersfeld said. “There is so much nutrition
misinformation out there. … Students who try pills are driven for a
quick fix.”

She said that chronic dieters and patients who have a tendency to have
an eating disorder may resort to taking diet pills.

Shepherd-Look expressed concerns about a society that overuses drugs
for a quick fix.

“Whether hyperactive or overweight, people need to find out how to
cope with the issues without just popping a pill,” she said.

Amphetamines may initially help with weight loss, but data suggests
that when they are not taken anymore, the weight can come back, and
generally at a faster rate prior to the drug use.

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I am back in the market for a Tech job since leaving Wal-Mart and
taking a scholarship for a semester. My license expired in May and I
did not renew it because here is what it says: (copied from website)

2007-2008 Pharmacy Technician Permit Renewal
IMPORTANT! - Unless you are currently employed in a licensed Oklahoma
pharmacy and under the immediate and direct supervision of a licensed
Oklahoma pharmacist, the Board will not renew your technician permit.
You may apply for reinstatement of your technician permit upon re-
employment in a licensed Oklahoma pharmacy

SO MY PROBELM IS THIS:

I was passed up for a job because my license was not “current” they
require you to already obtain a license. The catch is that I had a
license but let it lapse since I was not working as a tech. So, since
I am not under the immediate and direct supervision of a pharmacist,
how do I go about getting job that requires me to have a license?
Doesn’t make any sense to me. I tried explaining this to the hiring
supervisor and he didn’t catch on.

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Hello everyone. I was wondering how much RX fraud you run into as a
tech? We have relief pharmacists that work once in awhile when my boss
is gone. It seems like everytime my boss is gone, the criminals come
in. Just last week, I recongized a lady that came in with a rx as one
we have to really watch. I alerted the pharmacist and she called the
doctor from a back phone. This lady altered the rx. There is another
lady that has tried everything. She will steal rx pads from the doctors
offices. She alters written rx’s. The last time she called in her own
rx pretending to be a nurse at the doctors office. This lady has worked
the whole area around where I live. She has been caught several times
and seems to always get out again. I have a memory for faces and names
of these people. I don’t forget. How do you handle rx fraud?

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HI everyone,
I was just wondering if any other techs get the treatment that our
techs do concerning pharmacist. I know that pharmacist have gone to
school for years to receive their degree, but it seems as though the
techs do all of the work, without any recognition. Pharmacist get all
the praise and glory for filling a stat med or handling a problem that
the tech originally solved. To make things worse pharmacist get all
this responsibility for narcotics and signing of important documents
and they are the ones who make the mistakes of not correcting
discrepancies in the OMNICELL or narcotic log.(One pharmacist actually
lost a Morphine PCA, and still has a job). Let that had been a tech, we
would have lost our jobs and the DEA would have been on our backs.
My point being pharmacist get placed upon this pedestal as being
superior and without flaws, but in reality they are the ones making most
of the mistakes.
Just wanted to vent a little, does anyone else feel similar to this ?

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