”This is despite the fact that these drugs are Schedule II substances – just like cocaine, methamphetamines, and morphine. As such, drugs like as Ritalin, Vyvanse, Strattera, and Adderall have very real health risks. Commonly reported short-term side effects include:

Sleep disturbances
Restlessness
Headaches
Irritability
Changes in sex drive
Accidental overdose and/or acute adverse effects are also quite possible, as recent statistics demonstrate. According to a report published just last year, ADHD drugs were responsible for nearly 23,000 emergency room visits in 2011.This is a more than 400 percent increase in ER visits due to adverse reactions to ADHD medication in a mere six years.The increase was most dramatic among 18- to 25-year-olds. Far more serious adverse effects of ADHD drugs include:
Permanent brain damage
Liver damage
Heart and blood vessel damage
Heart attack, stroke, and sudden death
Changes in personality, depression and/or hallucinations, and suicide
Increased cancer risk

Prescription Painkillers Increase Your Risk of Depression:

There’s little doubt that many are completely oblivious to the risks of these kinds of prescription drugs. Or choose to turn a blind eye, in order to get quick relief. One side effect that many are completely unaware of is that narcotic painkillers (opioids) can significantly raise your risk of developing major depression.

Research shows the risk for depression can kick in after using opioids for a mere 90 days. Taking a narcotic painkiller for 90 to 180 days increased the risk for depression by 25 percent in study participants. Those who took opioids for 180 days or longer were at a 53 percent increased risk of developing depression compared to those who did not take such drugs.It’s not entirely clear how narcotic painkillers induce depression, although it’s widely known that they have a strong impact on your brain. The drugs work by binding to receptors in your brain to decrease the perception of pain.

But they also create a temporary feeling of euphoria followed by dysphoria that can easily lead to physical dependence and addiction. The researchers speculated that there could be numerous factors linking opioid painkillers with depression:“Some of these include opioid-induced resetting of the brain’s ‘reward pathway’ to a higher level, which means the chronic use of narcotic pain killers can elevate the threshold for a person’s ability to experience pleasure from natural rewards such as a food or sexual activity. Other factors may include body aches months and years after the use of opioids has stopped, side effects such as adrenal, testosterone and vitamin D deficiencies and glucose dysregulation.”