Board certified psychiatrist Dr. Edward Fruitman, M.D. discusses what stimulants and alcohol do to our brain, and the side effects it may cause when mixing both.
Hello i’m dr. friedman in this video we’re going to speak about effects of edirol and alcohol a lot of my patients ask me doctor we got a bottle of prescription and it says do not drink with this medicine this is a controlled substance and of course that is a wise recommendation by fda and i suggest everyone follows that but what if a person cannot follow it
Realistically in a real world situation young adults on adderall or other stimulants they take that medicine every day so does it mean they’ll never drink so yeah while i do recommend people following the rules and following that whatever it says on the prescription medicine if somebody is going to drink follow a couple of internal rules so rule number one is count
Your drinks oh the trouble with stimulants and alcohol is stimulants make you feel more alert and make you more coordinated so a person loses track of how much alcohol they drink normally people do rely on certain side effects of alcohol like slurred speech stumbling while you walk or feeling in coordinated or feeling drowsy those things are not going to happen or
Not gonna happen quickly enough if you just took a stimulant so one thing to do is to really plan exactly how many drinks you’re planning to have and let’s say you’re not feeling drunk because of recent adderall dose but you could still count your drinks and know once you drink let’s say the magic number of drinks you’re planning to drink stop and that especially
Applies to women who have lower alcohol tolerance and wine drinkers do not allow your glass to be refilled until you’ve finished what you drink so if you’re planning to help with say three glasses of wine you’ll lose track if people keep pouring wine into half drink lots to finish it and then pour another one and for third one but to keep account because even
Though you’re not feeling drunk then the next day you will have as severe a hangover is if you didn’t take adderall and also your once you do become intoxicated you’ll act in a way that you may later regret even though you’re not feeling drunk but you are drunk and you may be losing judgment so follow a simple procedure of having a good method to actually count
How many drinks your drink and also figure out that number before you start drinking and not once you’re already drinking and losing judgment and another thing is be mindful of what kind of a preparation you took so people who took let’s say adderall xr or vyvanse in the morning i would expect that most people would still have it in their system and a high enough
Dose by the evening before taking shorter acting tells that are supposed to take it twice a day consider skipping the second dose if you’re planning to drink in the evening oh this is dr. brookman and we’ll see you in the next video you
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Adderall & Alcohol. Can you mix? By Trifecta Health
