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What this guide is and isn't. We explain medicines; we don't give medical or legal advice, sell anything, or take responsibility for what readers decide to buy or take.

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This site explains ADHD and wakefulness medicines so you can understand your options and talk to your prescriber with confidence. It is information, nothing more. Please read this page once: it sets out what we do, what we don’t, and where your own responsibility begins.

In short

  • We inform. We don’t diagnose, prescribe, sell, ship or recommend any medicine for you.
  • We are not legal advisers in any way. Whether you may buy, import, carry or use a medicine where you live is for you to check.
  • Your choices are your own. What you decide to buy or take, and where from, is your decision and your responsibility.
  • Pharmacies are independent. The shops we link to are separate businesses that work under the laws of their own countries.

What this guide is

Think of it as a well-read friend who has done the homework. We read the official leaflets, what regulators have said, and the studies, and we put the sources at the bottom of every page with the date we looked. The patient stories come from public Reddit threads, and we label them as stories. Nobody who makes or sells these medicines gets a say in what we write.

Not medical advice

We don’t know you, your health, your other medicines or your history, so nothing here is advice for you personally, and reading it doesn’t make us your doctor or pharmacist. Starting, stopping, combining or changing the dose of any medicine is a decision to make with a qualified prescriber who knows you. If a page lists warning signs, such as a rash on modafinil or yellow skin on atomoxetine, take them seriously and get medical help.

None of us is a lawyer, and nothing on this site is legal advice. Every country writes its own medicine rules, and they keep changing. Modafinil, for example, is a controlled drug in the US, an ordinary prescription medicine in the UK, and a prescription medicine stocked by ordinary pharmacies in India. When we mention a country’s rules, we’re repeating what an official source said on the day we checked. That tells you nothing certain about your own case, and it may already be out of date.

Your decisions are your own

Readers come here from many countries and in many situations, and we can’t know any of them. So we take no responsibility for the choices readers make after reading this site: which medicine they choose, where they buy it, how they bring it into their country, how they take it, or what happens as a result. By using the site you accept that those decisions, and their consequences, are yours.

Some pages link to online pharmacies, and some of those links are affiliate links that may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. The pharmacies are independent businesses. Many of the brands they sell, such as Modalert, Waklert, Artvigil and Axepta, are made and legally sold in India. Each pharmacy operates under the laws of the country it trades from.

We don’t run these pharmacies and we are not party to any purchase. We don’t check their licenses, prices, stock, prescription requirements, packaging, delivery times or customs handling, and we can’t guarantee any of them. Any question or problem with an order is between you and the pharmacy.

Before you buy or travel: what to check

You are best placed to check these for your own situation:

  • Your own country’s rules on the medicine, usually on the health ministry’s or medicines regulator’s website.
  • Import and customs rules, including whether you need a prescription and how much you may bring in or receive by post.
  • Travel rules for any country you pass through, if you carry medicine with you.
  • The pharmacy itself: its contact details, the brand and maker it sends, and its delivery and refund terms.
  • Your health: whether the medicine is right for you, which only a prescriber can judge.

Off-label uses

Several pages describe off-label uses, meaning uses outside a medicine’s official license. We report what the studies found and where each use is or isn’t approved. We don’t recommend any off-label use; whether one suits you is between you and your prescriber. More in what off-label means.

Mistakes and updates

We check facts against their sources, but mistakes happen and information goes out of date. Each page shows when it was last updated, and the leaflet in your own pack is the version that applies to you. To the extent the law allows, we accept no liability for any loss or harm that arises from using this site or acting on it.

The formal version of these points is in our terms of use, and how we work is on about.