Going bottom-up rather than top-down to solve your problem, I'm going to treat your specific problem as "getting controlled substances is hard; how can I treat

Going bottom-up rather than top-down to solve your problem, I'm going to treat your specific problem as "getting controlled substances is hard; how can I treat ADHD chemically while avoiding that problem?" If so, here are a few leads: • Buproprion (Wellbutrin) is an NDRI but is not a controlled substance. Its on-label use is for depression or anxiety, but has been used off-label for treatment of ADHD. Many people are prescribed it as an adjunct therapy to regular depression/anxiety treatment when they also seem to have some ADHD symptoms, or when the drug they're taking for treatment of depression/anxiety causes ADHD symptoms. • Bromantane is a non-scheduled and in fact non-prescription "nootropic" drug (it's a licensed OTC medication in the countries it's produced in; but is just considered a "supplement" in North America) that specifically aims to treat dopaminergic receptor depletion, by — apparently — triggering the permanent growth of new dopaminergic receptors. Some people phrase this as it "healing" your reward system. (It can apparently be used to undo some of the long-term effects of meth use on the reward system.) ADHD is technically a syndrome, in that it has many possible root causes (etiologies); one of those potential root causes is a decrease in dopamine receptivity in the brain, or a decrease in dopamine production. Both of these problems are treated by growing more dopamine receptors. If your ADHD has that particular etiology, then it may benefit you to try this. (In practice, it worked, at least for me. I took some for a while when I ran out of Vyvanse myself, and it indeed treated my ADHD, though in a very different-feeling way than Vyvanse does. When I stopped taking it, and resumed Vyvanse treatment, I found that I needed a lower dose of the Vyvanse going forward.) • Tricyclic antidepressants are dopaminergic and unscheduled. You'd have a lot of side-effects from these if you aren't also depressed / anxious; but if you are, they're a good solution. • MAOIs are everything-ergic, and unscheduled. They're also pretty awful. (You can't eat cheese!) Last resort.