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Adderall is amphetamine salts. It's f*king SPEED. Laboratory-grade SPEED. (yea, yea methamphetmine is delivered in higher concentrations when being abused, but

by stryk 9y ago

Adderall is amphetamine salts. It's f*king SPEED. Laboratory-grade SPEED. (yea, yea methamphetmine is delivered in higher concentrations when being abused, but I don't care Adderall is still goddamn SPEED -- and people give this shit to their kids!) It's not that far off from "meth minus the battery acid." Why on Earth anyone would want to give that shit to their own kids is beyond me, especially since it's often offered as a remedy to one of the MOST over- and mis-diagnosed conditions there is.

ma2rten 9y ago
In addition to lower doses like you said, effects of stimulates like amphetamines are completely different if taken orally than if they are sniffed or injected. ADHD is one of the most well researched mental conditions. It is real and will cause significant impairment if untreated. Stimulants are the most effective medication in many but not all cases. Comments like that are harmful. However, I agree with you that an ADHD diagnosis should not be given lightly.
- stryk 9y ago
  I wasn't implying ADHD wasn't real. It very much is real, but unfortunately it seems to have become a sort of "catch-all" diagnosis. It's now more of a common label than it is a medical diagnosis. Isn't it equally as dangerous to not treat the underlying issues or root causes? And when the common 'treatment' for a hyper-active disorder diagnosis is a prescription for Adderall/Vivanse (again, this is speed with a fancy brand name. call it what it is) it's incredibly dangerous -- these are KIDS we're talking about, there's no way we've had enough time to tell what giving this shit to a brain that's still under development actually does in the long term. Then there's the very real potential for abuse -- we're already in an opioid epidemic in the USA do we really need a bunch of tweaked out kids running around?
  - ma2rten 9y ago
    If there is another root cause then it isn't ADHD. As I already said I agree with you that one should be careful in diagnosing ADHD.

by stryk 9y ago

ma2rten 9y ago

In addition to lower doses like you said, effects of stimulates like amphetamines are completely different if taken orally than if they are sniffed or injected. ADHD is one of the most well researched mental conditions. It is real and will cause significant impairment if untreated. Stimulants are the most effective medication in many but not all cases. Comments like that are harmful. However, I agree with you that an ADHD diagnosis should not be given lightly.

stryk 9y ago
I wasn't implying ADHD wasn't real. It very much is real, but unfortunately it seems to have become a sort of "catch-all" diagnosis. It's now more of a common label than it is a medical diagnosis. Isn't it equally as dangerous to not treat the underlying issues or root causes? And when the common 'treatment' for a hyper-active disorder diagnosis is a prescription for Adderall/Vivanse (again, this is speed with a fancy brand name. call it what it is) it's incredibly dangerous -- these are KIDS we're talking about, there's no way we've had enough time to tell what giving this shit to a brain that's still under development actually does in the long term. Then there's the very real potential for abuse -- we're already in an opioid epidemic in the USA do we really need a bunch of tweaked out kids running around?
- ma2rten 9y ago
  If there is another root cause then it isn't ADHD. As I already said I agree with you that one should be careful in diagnosing ADHD.