I'm prescribed Adderall and klonopin can I still drive? Will employers hire me?

Well then - that solves that then.

If that is the case, and it's only Schedule 1 that is in question, then you're fine, right?

 

Don't!

 

Incorrect. Read the information that @x1Heavy posted.

The S1 includes both medical and street drugs.

Your 2 meds are prescribed, and Scheduled 2 and 4 - so unless I'm not grasping this, we have arrived at a moot thread.

 

All of that aside, I look at it differently.

I worked in the pharma worked for a bunch of years, I had to learn how the system works and working on a couple projects that were directly related to drug studies and post approval adverse event tracking, I have very firm opinions about using mind altering drugs.

BUT I would give people a chance if they are good drivers until two years ago.

My wife worked with a girl who was on these two drugs, she was stable for a while but then for some reason the drugs became ineffective. Her doc did what they are warned never to do, change scripts without a phasing out and phasing in period because in many cases the brain can not handle the changes and long term problems surface. So a week after she was taking this new combination she just lost it, she threw a fit with a patient in the ER who just lost her kid. She went off on her supervisor which ended up being a physical altercation and so on. They ended up sedating her and putting her into the psych ER for 72 hour hold. Her doc got involved after they ER docs put her back on the original combination and by the end of the next week she was stable enough to return to work. She didn't even know what happened, she had a psychotic event because of the abrupt cut off and introduction of another chemical. So now she has been transferred out of the department away from patients - she decided that - and lives with restrictions on activities.

What my fear is, and it is well founded, is a driver will end up changing meds or having a problem with a side effect and being isolated like we are, there will be an amplification of problems that will spiral out of control.

Now this does not mean that there are people out there that can be great drivers using these drugs, but I weigh on the cautious side because of the damage that can be done as this girl has proven and the knowledge of what has happened to people through adverse events reports I've read.

 

For the thousandth time, IT IS NOT A BANNED MED FOR CDL DRIVERS, FEDERALLY OR OTHERWISE.

Please stop spreading this false information.

 

No it is not impossible. At least as to Adderall.

I swear some people see the "amphetamine" in Amphetamine Salt and start pissing their pants.

 

Klonopin is banned

 

Source?