Adderall and Ritalin Treatment Center in Los Angeles, California
Adderall & Ritalin Addiction
Thrive Treatment’s dedicated addiction treatment programs provide Adderall and Ritalin addiction treatment options, exploring comprehensive healing across all levels of care. We offer programs from detox and residential treatment to outpatient treatment for long-term recovery in California.
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Our Adderall and Ritalin addiction recovery plan takes a comprehensive approach to your wellness and change, with programs designed to meet you where you are in your recovery journey. Each rehab program is built to address your needs, from helping you confront drug addiction in our detox program to balancing your needs and responsibilities as a student or working professional.
Our addiction treatment center in Los Angeles, California, combines evidence-based care like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) with comprehensive holistic healing options, life skills, and dual diagnosis treatment to address underlying mental health disorders, so your time in treatment is spent focusing on the strategies that best tend to your unique needs in personalized care.
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Understanding Adderall & Ritalin
An Introduction to Adderall & Ritalin Addiction Treatment in Los Angeles at Thrive Treatment
What’s the price you pay for paying attention?
Or to control your concentration, to be less distracted, to have command over impulsiveness? To enhance performance and have a laser-like focus?
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be difficult and frustrating to live with, and can have you or a loved one, often a child or teenager, falling behind at work or school, grappling and searching for solutions.
Frequently, the solution comes in the form of a prescription to a stimulant drug, and by far the most popular for ADHD are Adderall (generic drug name: amphetamine and dextroamphetamine) and Ritalin (generic drug name: methylphenidate). Extremely well known on college campuses around the country for both ADHD and narcolepsy, but also as study drugs, with Adderall abuse being common as a way to attempt to increase focus or academic success, despite the health risks of using a prescription drug without such a prescription, or against its label.
Around 9.4% of children, or 6.1 million up to age 18, have been diagnosed with ADHD, and roughly 4.4% of adults. This shines a light on just how widespread the diagnosis is, and the need for education on prescription drug abuse, behavioral health needs, and the importance of a treatment plan to address signs of addiction. More pressingly, it means there are a lot of people, young and older, who are taking prescription drugs. Two-thirds of children, in fact, and between 2006 and 2016, there was a 2.5-time increase in prescription amphetamine use, with a peak of 20 tons, whereas methylphenidate peaked at 19.4 tons.
All told, total stimulant medication usage doubled in those 10 years.
Astonishing numbers.
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Thrive Treatment℠ Center offers evidence-based addiction treatment at our Santa Monica location. Located minutes from the beach, our central location allows you the opportunity to learn how to thrive, when recovering from stimulant addiction.
It Takes More Than Medication
While medication does a mountain of good for many people, that’s not the end of the story. It’s not as simple and cut and dry as taking Adderall or Ritalin and being done with it in some cases.
There’s a real stigma attached to an ADHD diagnosis, with one study noting, “stigma associated with ADHD can be conceptualized as an underestimated risk factor, affecting treatment adherence, treatment efficacy, symptom aggravation, life satisfaction, and mental well-being of individuals affected by ADHD. Public, as well as health professionals’ concepts about ADHD, are highly diverse, setting individuals with an ADHD diagnosis at greater risk of getting stigmatized.”
In addition, and unrelated to what the drugs are actually designed to treat, both Adderall and Ritalin have a side effect of causing weight loss. What starts as the pursuit of slimming down can easily turn into a full-blown stimulant addiction since, from the jump, the medication is being taken for the wrong purpose and not as directed.
Therapy sessions at our rehab center focus not just on the immediate symptoms of addiction in drug rehab, but instead, explore mental health treatment and individual needs to get to the root of your needs, goals, and reasons behind use to create a personalized treatment program, with individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and support groups all working to address these mental health issues.
Adderall & Ritalin Withdrawal
The discomfort of going through withdrawal is a significant driver of the cycle of addiction. Even if you want to quit, the moment you start to feel the pangs of withdrawal, the choice becomes: work through it or alleviate the discomfort. The easier call, and the path of least resistance, is to just kill the irritation, pain, and distress by taking more Adderall or Ritalin.
Withdrawal from these two looks like:
- Depression
- Anxiety, worry, and panic attacks
- Increased appetite
- Issues sleeping, either getting too much or too little
- Difficulty with concentration
- Headaches
- Fatigue
- Cravings
- Slowed reflexes/movement
- Low heart rate
Symptoms of withdrawal generally last anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks, but can linger longer.
A dedicated detox program is necessary to not only ensure comfort but also provide resources and care for effective relapse prevention during this important time. In addition, working with our treatment facility can also ensure that you can transition from a successful detox program to your next level of care, such as inpatient treatment, a sober living program, partial hospitalization program (PHP), or an effective intensive outpatient program (IOP), depending on your needs and responsibilities in daily life.
We also offer dedicated aftercare support, so you can continue balancing your sobriety from Adderall and Ritalin with ongoing needs and goals, such as navigating stresses and academic deadlines without returning to sub
What Are the Signs of Adderall/Ritalin Addiction?
There’s been a long-standing concern that the use of stimulants by children can lead to the development of a substance use disorder (SUD) later in life. It’s worth noting that, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), “on balance, the studies conducted so far have found no differences in later substance use for ADHD-affected children who received treatment versus those that did not. This suggests that treatment with ADHD medication does not affect (either negatively or positively) an individual’s risk for developing a substance use disorder.”
That seems like a net positive in the long run. However, for those currently taking stimulants, especially if they’re not being used as prescribed, the risk of substance abuse and Adderall and Ritalin addiction is very much present and real. Misuses to be aware of, in addition to taking Adderall or Ritalin in a way or a dosage other than prescribed, are taking someone else’s meds or taking them exclusively to get high.
After all, stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin work by increasing the activity of the brain chemicals dopamine and norepinephrine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that’s closely associated with pleasure, movement, and attention, as well as integral in the reinforcement of rewarding behavior. Norepinephrine affects blood vessels, blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar, and breathing.
The euphoria that accompanies dopamine can very much lead a person to chase that feeling.
Also, one of the active ingredients in Adderall is amphetamine, which is related chemically to methamphetamine. Although there is some similarity in effects, meth is nonetheless far more powerful and brings with it more dangerous side effects.
A study by Johns Hopkins found that even as prescriptions for stimulants have remained more or less unchanged recently, emergency room visits associated with Adderall have been rising substantially, with an increase of 156% in the period observed, 2006 to 2011.
As for Ritalin, or methylphenidate, it can become addictive when taken in excessive amounts and used either intranasal (snorted) or intravenous (injected). In fact, when snorted, the effects are similar to those of cocaine.
Seeing as how they’re both stimulants, the warning signs for Ritalin and Adderall addiction are similar:
- Taking larger amounts than prescribed to get the same effect, building a tolerance
- Intense cravings
- Reduced appetite and weight loss
- Rapid heart rate
- Dehydration
- Nervousness
- Taking other people’s medication
- Ingesting it in ways other than prescribed, like snorting
- Mood swings
- Inability to complete tasks without the medication
- Neglecting responsibilities
- Continuing to use even when it puts you in danger or causes clear mental or physical problems
- Experiencing withdrawal symptoms when not taking them
Thrive Treatment's Adderall/Ritalin Rehab in Los Angeles Can Help
Adderall treatment and Ritalin treatment are taken as one and the same since both drugs are stimulants. The initial step is all about detox because you can’t work on the mind until the body is free of toxins. Depending on the severity of the addiction, in some cases, it looks like tapering off the drugs or possibly mitigating the withdrawal symptoms with medication. Managing withdrawal symptoms and the physical dependence on either medication is first and foremost.
After that, the focus shifts squarely to the mental side of addiction.
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Thrive Treatment's Adderall/Ritalin Rehab in Los Angeles Can Help
Adderall treatment and Ritalin treatment are taken as one and the same since both drugs are stimulants. The initial step is all about detox because you can’t work on the mind until the body is free of toxins. Depending on the severity of the addiction, in some cases that looks like tapering off the drugs or possibly mitigating the withdrawal symptoms with medication. Managing withdrawal symptoms and the physical dependence on either medication is first and foremost.
After that, the focus shifts squarely to the mental side of addiction.
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At Thrive Treatment we utilize a multi-modal approach to recovery and create a treatment plan that is suited to your distinct needs and circumstances. Seeing as how addiction is a mental illness, we work with you, through individual and group therapy sessions, to create a strong therapeutic relationship and help uncover the why of your addiction.
With a skilled, compassionate and warm clinical staff in addition to board-certified addiction specialists, we utilize an integrated and holistic approach to help you get your life back and make sure your recovery from Adderall or Ritalin addiction is a lasting one.
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