Adderall: Not just for dinner anymore

By adamg on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 9:36pm

Rob Bellinger recounts an encounter last night with a hopped-up actress wandering the streets of Cambridge who said she was looking for a job as a bartender.

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Good instincts, to get the

By neilv on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 9:50am.

Good instincts, to get the hell away from her.

But I wonder whether there's anything one could have done for her in that situation. Calling an ambulance doesn't seem appropriate, but is there some social service hotline for Adderall train wreck intervention, or something?

Wow!

By AmeriKenArtist on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 2:43pm.

So many times it is just downright dangerous trying to help people in that condition! The boyfriends usually have a Texas-size ego and a territorial disposition just as big!

While walking today, I was approached by a young girl, who kindly asked me for fifteen dollars! She had no boots and no gloves. It had been snowing for two hours. I asked her why she needed it. Her lips quivering, she said that she needed minutes on her phone. I knew I was standing there much too long. Then I asked her if she lived here, in this town and she said yes. I said, "Go Home!" and quickly walked away.

I had too many close calls with beautiful, scantily-clad women with their priorities on the dark side!

God, No

By neilv on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 3:01pm.

I didn't mean one should help Adderall Woman while in physical proximity, nor otherwise remain in contact.

Something more like:

1. SHOUT "NO!"

2. GET AWAY FAST

3. TELL AN ADULT

YOU! CALL 911!

By eeka on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 3:41pm.

I'M TRAINED IN CPR! MAY I HAVE CONSENT TO HELP YOU?

Tells you how old my CPR training

By neilv on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 4:32am.

In Catholic grade school, they brought in a Red Cross instructor, with the CPR mannequins and everything, to give us first aid training.

I think that's when I learned to pick out someone, point and make eye contact, and command them, "You! Call 911!" (At an accident scene, I once probably weirded-out my walking companion by soft-spoken me taking control barking out orders.)

I don't recall learning anything about liability, except to the extent of which techniques could cause injury, and had to be done correctly and judiciously. This was not presented to us from a liability-avoidance perspective.

We also didn't learn that there was any danger to the person administering CPR. Lazy kids these days, with them new-fangled CPR masks. :)