Adderall addiction

[AML]

I recently discovered that my 49 year old wife has been taking my sons adderall for a year.  She has been taking 20mg. per day.  She also takes celexa for depression.  I am concerned that she is addicted and will have withdrawal problems.  I have hidden the adderall from her and she no longer has it available.  She relizes that she has a problem and has commited to quit.  What are the withdrawal symptoms, how soon after she has quit to they show, how long to they last and how can I help.

Thanks,
AML

[hippy]

i was trying to get off a 15 perc a day  habit for the last year or 2 , i kept trying ,but kept failing  ,because the depression
was to much to handle along with the other withdrawl symptoms.
well i did not want to go to a rehab or a detox.
then i found this site read about the reciep.
i been taking it and it has  worked

[hippy]

the recipe
L-tyrosine 8 500mg tabs a day week1 ,3 aday week 2
b-6 2 tab a day
cal magnisum
zinc,vit a, vit c, copper, magnese,
Imodium for runs.
a strong muliti vitamin.
  .

bannas are good for leg spasams because of the potasium in them.
slim fast has  these ingredents and won't hurt to take either. or any other vit drink.
the l-tyrosine seem to bee the main thing it's an amion acid that gets the endorfins in your brain working agian.
there is more written on the site here and there so read everything.
I have been taking it for two weeks now cold turkey and it,s been a life saver.

[angst]

What is this "recipe" I keep seeing in the other comments?  What does it do and who is it for?  Any info is appreciated.  I am completely ignorant about this "recipe".  thanks

[angst]

Oxycontin and MS contin  are for chronic pain, terminal pain.  I am a recovering junkie.  I have kicked without medical attention a few times.  The last 3 relapses lead me back to methadone.  Without it, at the time, I probably would have died.  I was so into my addiction.  I do not know when I will get off the methadone this time.  I was on it two years before and had a clean period of 6 months off opiates.  I do not smoke pot or drink, except for the occasional imported treat.  I was in chronic pain and got hooked on stadol ns.  That was a gateway drug into the dirty world of chasing the drug man and getting money anyway I could.  Warm baths and small meals helped me during withdrawls.  I did the gatorade thing.  You do not want to get dehydrated.  If you are coming of opiates, your stomach knots up first.  When the stomach subsides, you hurt all over for a month or so.  I do not mean to be a downer.  This is a great time to get out of yourself.  When you are weak physically, you can be strong spiritually.  I'm not talking about anybody's gospel.  Your own concept will work.  At times, my higher power was kitchen appliances.  Meigan, just hang in there, it does get better.  Angst

[Mace]

I have only posted once before and I too vented. I wont go into the whole story but I am losing the use of my legs due to a back injury and am in pain most every min. of every day. I take 3 40mg of oxycontin every day. I have increased from 2 40mg a day but did it over almost 4 years. I have always taken the meds as prescribed and I believe it has saved my life! Before the oxy I took Lortab 10/750. Don

[hippy]

there is a chapter in the book ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOO'S NEST
where the doctors are watching CHEIF the indian, hes's looking out one of the window's , and he's watching  a bird's nest with  some baby bird's., and the doctor say's to the other doctors look he,s getting better, because he's looking at life out side of him self. when your crazy your eyes almost look totaly inward. when we start tio gain some sanity we start to see the world around us. Sort of like going from total selfcenteredness to a godcenteredness.
I remember when i was married the first time ,my wife took me to these garden's  where the dog woods were in full bloom, looking back i never even noticed them because all i was concerned with was where i was goin to get my fix for that night.
what a shsme looking back. i was so consumed with my self.
I got clean a few years later , and was working on a NA 2nd
step restoration to sanity , I  was driving down the I 95 one day and was looking off into the distance off the side of the road and i noticed a single tree ,it was winter time, the tree was bare ,but it was so beautiful . I was 25 years old then and i finally  noticed one of god's simple creations. I was getting better, just like the cheif.