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Certainly I had smoked pot first, but but my first full blown addiction to Amphedamines was via a prescription from a doctor for ADHD.  When I quit taking the dexadrine that I was prescribed I simply had a cross-addiction to Cocaine and then speed.  How many people that were given legal speed addictions from a doctor, later ended up with crippling addictions to meth?  It seems to me that the huge push for ADD and ADHD drugs was shortly followed by a huge increase in meth use.  I know I made my own horrible choices, but the addiction I had at 17 did not help. 

-John

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