I think you shouldn't assume that Adderall is the best medication for you. You say your friend is a psychiatrist and has a PhD. But psychiatrists are medical doctors, not PhDs, so which is it?
A prominent feature of ADHD is enduring problems. A person with ADHD doesn't start having problems at work with concentration and focus and never have had them before. If you haven't had this for quite some time, then it probably isn't ADHD. And so a medication for ADHD would not be the best choice.
Do you want to get help for what is wrong or do you just want stimulant drugs? If the latter, why not just buy your drugs from the street? Maybe your opiate supplier can fix you up with some stims too.
Even if you do have ADHD, if you have anger issues, then Adderall is probably not a good choice. Its nickname is "madderall"--that's right, it makes some people quite angry. Certainly not a good choice for you.
What won't your primary care doctor diagnose you with ADHD? Is it that he doesn't have the expertise to diagnose you, or that he did test you for ADHD and found you didn't have it, or that he won't prescribe stimulants for you?
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Originally Posted by IndieVisible
I can not be over med to the point of it slowing me down or making me feel retarded. I need to be 100% functional and in complete control. I've been able to get away with this for decades! I'm just worried that they will stop my benzos and not give me adderall if I come clean.
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If you want to be 100% functional, not slowed down or retarded, and in complete control, then you would stop taking the benzos and opiates. They are CNS depressants. Don't try to fix one med (the benzos) with another (a stimulant). If you stopped taking the benzos, maybe all your concentration and focus problems would go away.
To be honest, you're not making a good impression with your story here, and I think you'll need to do a better job if you want to hoodwink someone into prescribing stimulants for you. FWIW, the place I work, a medical clinic, periodically and randomly tests anyone who is prescribed a controlled substance like Adderall, for a full panel of drugs. So any alcohol, benzo, or opiate use would show up, and unless these are on your prescribed list of medications, the clinic will drop you like a hot potato. And you will not get your Adderall.