[Pimp Stain]

My fiance is on the Suboxone program for opiate addiction. His doctor recently lowered his dosage, and he has been doing fine. The only complaint was that he had difficulty concentrating on the lower dosage, so the doctor prescribed him Strattera for ADD.Firstly, my fiance doesn't feel he has ADD or, if he does, it's a very mild case of it. Secondly, him and I both have a history of addiction, particularly with amphetamine ADD meds such as Adderall and Ritalin. We would fake our way through tests and doctor-shop to obtain the drug, and we wound up in some pretty bad places.Both of us are in recovery now, and working strong programs, but I worry that the medicine may trip him into old"addict behavior", or have some sort of mood or mind-altering effect that will either lead him to become dependent on the drug, or craving something stronger.His doctor assured him that Strattera is safe. I think his doctor is a bozo, and prescribed it unnecessarily.Please share your experiences with Strattera- does it have potential for abuse? Obviously, the Strattera website doesn't admit to anything like that, so that's why I'm asking for personal stories.We have come a long way, and we can't afford to mess around with sh*t like this.

[madworld]

i am a recovering opiate addict. 4 years, as of september 15. i also struggle with add. i am on strattera and to answer your q, no it is not addicting... this is why my psych prescribed it for me. i can't take the others because i am a recovering addict and the stimulants are potentially addictive (ritalin, focalin, concerta...) but, not strattera.strattera works for some and for others it doesn't.

[Sydney III]

Strattera is not supposed to be addicting and doesn't have the same reaction on the body as the amphetamines. As a matter of fact, for all the kids that I have seen on it, it did nothing.The doctor still sounds like a bit of a quack.