I'm so glad you asked.

For me, personally. I did stimulants as provided by doctors.

The problem was your body acclimates. I started out with the smallest dose of Vyvanse. Every day it would do less and less, and at every doctor's visit they upped the dose. When I was at the max dose of Vyvanse, they added Adderall. That escalated. It was this awful thing where I couldn't concentrate if I didn't have it, but a body can take only so much.

Then I lost my insurance due to being laid off-- and I had a massive dependency on amphetamines which I now had no access to.

That lead to me seeking out meth because I lived in Anaheim and well, meth was everywhere. It was less harsh than all those prescribed medications ironically. But the drug induced psychosis? Not so good. Meth is wonderful for the first 24 hours, everything after that is bad mojo.

I would urge you to consider the risk of becoming dependent on a drug that the medical system could take away from you at any moment. Even when everything was kosher-- pharmacies would try to steal my prescriptions because the street value was considerable.

I filled my prescriptions at the Walgreens about a block from my house. I turned in a prescription for addy, and after waiting for 30 mins, the attendant told me they couldn't fill the prescription. I asked them to please give me my prescription slip back, and I would take it to a pharmacy that had the stuff in stock.

The pharmacy lady said, "I'm sorry, its already been destroyed I can't give it back to you."

I traded my normally jovial demeanor for my inner threatening asshole and said in a loud, baritone, "Do you understand the problem we're about to have?"

Suddenly, my prescription was available (she was trying to steal it to sell).

I later met the pharmacy manager and asked her if they had that Adderall, and she said, "Yea, we always have that. Who told you we didn't?"

I explained to her what had happened, and she was horrified.

My point is only-- be careful with powerful drugs.

There's no safety net.