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In addition to all the four in this thread(glucose,alcohol,music and caffeine)...another tool and perhaps the most effective immediately....Adderall. (Warning

In addition to all the four in this thread(glucose,alcohol,music and caffeine)...another tool and perhaps the most effective immediately....Adderall. (Warning:I am not a doctor,and you must fully understand the side effects before using even a mild amphetamine)

prawn 15y ago
I use No Doz and find that it just makes me procrastinate at incredible speed.
code_duck 15y ago
Unfortunately, on the of the most prominent side effects of amphetamines is tolerance and habituation, then a massive crash in the other direction that can last weeks or months when you stop taking it. I generally find stimulants take more out of me than they give.
- freemarketteddy 15y ago
  yes..one way to avoid developing tolerance is to not use it regularly....in my case I try to alternate between periods of relaxation(lots of procrastination!) and intense work periods when I use 10 mg XRs on weekdays! Here is a very good quora thread on the long term effects http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-long-term-effects-of-Adderall-Dexedrine-or-Ritalin-use http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-long-term-effects-of-Adder... Also nearly 3.3 million Americans age 19 and younger used an ADHD drug last year, according to Medco Health Solutions Inc.I think there is enough data to conclude that there are not really any serious and irreversible long term effects.Would love to be proved wrong on this?
  - code_duck 15y ago
    Adderall is a mixture of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine. It is not all that different than methamphetamine - you don't have to look very far to find that long term use of amphetamines can be very dangerous.
philwelch 15y ago
On Paul Erdos: "After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[12] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use."
- freemarketteddy 15y ago
  thanks for sharing that!

prawn 15y ago

I use No Doz and find that it just makes me procrastinate at incredible speed.

code_duck 15y ago

Unfortunately, on the of the most prominent side effects of amphetamines is tolerance and habituation, then a massive crash in the other direction that can last weeks or months when you stop taking it. I generally find stimulants take more out of me than they give.

freemarketteddy 15y ago
yes..one way to avoid developing tolerance is to not use it regularly....in my case I try to alternate between periods of relaxation(lots of procrastination!) and intense work periods when I use 10 mg XRs on weekdays! Here is a very good quora thread on the long term effects http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-long-term-effects-of-Adderall-Dexedrine-or-Ritalin-use http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-long-term-effects-of-Adder... Also nearly 3.3 million Americans age 19 and younger used an ADHD drug last year, according to Medco Health Solutions Inc.I think there is enough data to conclude that there are not really any serious and irreversible long term effects.Would love to be proved wrong on this?
- code_duck 15y ago
  Adderall is a mixture of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine. It is not all that different than methamphetamine - you don't have to look very far to find that long term use of amphetamines can be very dangerous.

philwelch 15y ago

On Paul Erdos: "After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[12] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use."

freemarketteddy 15y ago
thanks for sharing that!