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I challenge someone to provide evidence enough to scare me into stopping. Go ahead, save my life
by reactJS 10y ago
I challenge someone to provide evidence enough to scare me into stopping. Go ahead, save my life
- dang 10y agoPlease don't do this here. Your other comment was fine, and can and should speak for itself. We detached this one from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345023 and marked it off-topic.
- reactJS 10y agoSorry, mean't to be a joke. Way past the point of being saved anyway
- krinchan 10y agoMeh. So long as you don't graduate to a full blown cocaine or meth addiction, you should be fine for a long while. You'll have cardiovascular issues further down the line if you don't work out and/or smoke. I mean, all stimulants to some degree or another are bad for your heart and blood pressure. Perhaps look into that other brain pill all the kids are taking now, Modafinil. I've been meaning to try some at some point. Apparently it gives you all the bonuses of Normal Person on Ritalin but none of the jitters.
- reactJS 10y agoThis is the opposite of what I needed to hear, but exactly what I wanted
- phkahler 10y ago>> I challenge someone to provide evidence enough to scare me into stopping. Go ahead, save my life From TFA: Schwarz traces the Icarus-like trajectory of Richard Fee, an aspiring medical student who fakes the symptoms of A.D.H.D. to get access to drugs that will help him cope with academic pressure. When he eventually descends into amphetamine psychosis, his father tells his doctor that if he doesn’t stop furnishing his son with Adderall, he’ll die. Two weeks after burning through his supply, Fee hanged himself in a closet. Are you sure your supply will never be disrupted?
- scottmf 10y agoWhat's the problem here? Someone fakes symptoms to get medication, abuses it, goes crazy, kills self. If you read the article about this guy you'll see he was incredibly manipulative and lied to multiple doctors to get prescriptions. The problem here is Richard Fee, no one else.
- krinchan 10y agoTo be honest that's stereotypical of someone who was taking far, far more of their pills than prescribed. Most people, while they're prescribed a 30 day supply, skip pills on the weekends and vacations to maintain lower tolerances. They typically "save" those pills for one of three reasons: 1) The pharmacist at your pharmacy randomly decides you're a tweaker and you have to spend 2 weeks finding a new pharmacy. 2) PARTY TIME!!! 3) Pulling an all nighter and surviving the next day. Without the book handy and the whole medical school bit, I'd say it was 3, except it was more like a couple-dayer without sleep.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoI've been taking ADD meds my whole life and I've never had anything like withdrawal symptoms. If I don't take the pills, I don't get the effect of the pills: that's all that happens. In fact I regularly skip them on weekends/vacations/etc. to help keep my tolerance low; I've never had any problem doing that. Someone who's getting amphetamine psychosis off of ADD meds is seriously abusing them. That absolutely does not happen with proper clinical doses.