Have you been actually diagnosed with ADHD? If not then that is the 1st step. Is this doctor experienced with ADHD? Any clinician with integrity, credibility, and ethics would take several appointments to make an ADHD diagnosis, it's a complicated disorder that requires one with knowledge and experience, Bi-Polar disorder and ADHD do have some similar symptoms along with OCD and clinical depression. One doctor may be and expert in one but have little knowledge in the others. A misdiagnosis can have severe effects, I had to go to 7 appointments which included numerous tests and interviews. Once you get an official diagnosis then you can talk treatment, including meds. There is a very good reason why many clinicians just don't write scripts for ADD meds based on a patients assumption. It's very well known that many unethical clinicians will, especially college students. It's also popular with Wall Street stock brokers, Bankers, and Financiers. Well connected students and Wall Streeters have the means to get ADD meds, a short 30-minute appointment, claim they can't focus and easily distracted and they walk out with a prescription. The effects of ADD meds on a person who really doesn't have it is much different than someone who is legitimately ADHD. ADDer's take it and it slows their brain down to the point where they can focus, stay on task and not have to deal with the numerous thoughts running through their mind, it helps them function at a relatively normal pace. For one without ADD, they get the actual stimulant effect, like their on speed, stay up for hours on end studying or being able to function in an extremely fast-paced, high-pressure environment that a stock broker would be exposed to. These are the ones that get addicted, there is a big difference between needing it to function at a normal pace or just taking it to keep a high energy level, without it, for many like me, getting through the day is a living hell filled with frustration, anger, humiliation, failure, the list is endless. I also work at a college and my position requires me to deal directly with students quality of life while living on campus. It's common for students to sell their ADD meds to other students, a 20mg pill of Ritalin or Adderal can get as much as $40. What they don't realize is that they are a control substance, no different than selling or buying Heroin or Coke, it's a felony by law, sadly I've seen several students over the years expelled for selling their meds and others having their careers ruined before they even get started for having a controlled substance that doesn't belong to them. One student this year was tried as a common drug dealer after he was caught selling his prescription Adderall to an undercover cop off campus. So you can understand the hesitation and concern when a college age student requests ADD meds without a legitimate diagnosis.