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if expressing any less-than-positive opinions about pharmaceutical corporations is enough for you to make an immediate learned mental association with a popular
by adamrezich 4y ago
if expressing any less-than-positive opinions about pharmaceutical corporations is enough for you to make an immediate learned mental association with a popular dismissive political buzzword label, then I suggest asking yourself why exactly this is the first thing that came to mind, and what that might mean from a marketing perspective.
I was prescribed 20mg daily of time-release amphetamines when I was 13, and that was 18 years ago. I have consumed somewhere in the range of 1300 grams of amphetamines in this time period. I have a dependency on it and I hate it. whose idea was it to give a 13-year-old amphetamines just because he spent too much time thinking about computers instead of focusing on middle school classwork. and a good mix of various antidepressants, none of which worked and all of which had unpleasant side effects.
the medical system in this country, which its pharmaceutical corporations are fully complicit in, is far from pure and righteous and unquestionably benevolent. if marketing (or propaganda, depending on how you want to look at it) has conditioned you to believe otherwise, then I don't know what else I can tell you.
- pmarreck 4y agoThat's fair, but speaking as an occasional 15mg Adderall XR person for about 10 years now- You're not addicted to it. The downer when you go off it will take a few days (I take 2 days, you may take a day or 2 more) and will be a bitch, but it will pass. I go off mine on weekends so that I don't adapt to it.
- adamrezich 4y agothis has not been my experience. I have tried for up to four days before and it's just miserable, it's like all the bad parts of being stoned and drunk and none of the good parts. when you've been on something since adolescence it's hard to break away. after I re-accrue time off after my wedding this coming summer I'm thinking about about taking a week off to try to go clean again but I'm deathly afraid of the sheer drop-off in productivity that will occur. I have lived more of my life on this drug than not, and getting off of it terrifies me, even though I hate it.
- pmarreck 4y agoMaybe take a vacation off work for more than a week and do it then, when it's relatively safer? You can sleep it off (you will need to sleep more).