Adderall

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Pharmacology, Trademark.

1. a brand name for a combination drug containing amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy.

Example Sentences

With no options for therapy, she started her son on the Adderall dose he was prescribed, she said.

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His teenage son is on Adderall and Zoloft after a turbulent childhood with an addicted mother.

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A jury found Ruthia He guilty of conspiring to distribute controlled substances after her startup Done Global became a ready source of Adderall prescriptions for more than 100,000 patients.

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The company was the subject of a series of articles in The Wall Street Journal from 2022 to 2024 describing how some Done clinicians felt pressured to prescribe stimulants such as Adderall, while others wrote prescriptions much faster than is typical for clinicians doing thorough patient evaluations.

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During a seven-week trial, prosecutors argued that He sought to enrich herself by making it easy to get Adderall and other stimulants, which the government classifies as controlled substances with a high potential for abuse.

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