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Children and amphetamines, not hallucinogens, was the real-world solution to behavioral problems in schools... it's a bit dystopian. If you're one of those who

Children and amphetamines, not hallucinogens, was the real-world solution to behavioral problems in schools... it's a bit dystopian. If you're one of those who feels they benefit from amphetamines, that's fine - but I imagine overprescription is an issue: https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/us/schools-backing-of-behavior-drugs-comes-under-fire.html https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/us/schools-backing-of-beh... > "Last year, doctors wrote almost 20 million monthly prescriptions for the stimulants, according to IMS Health, a health care information company. Most of those prescriptions were written for children, especially boys. The drugs had sales last year of $758 million, 13 percent more than in 1999." According to Wired the ADHD drug market is now $13 billion in sales, although inflation is up, and total prescription count has doubled as of 2021. That's a lot of medicinal speed in circulation.

qmmmur 3y ago
Are you an AI?
- firewolf34 3y ago
  Unfortunately, as an AI language learning model, I cannot confirm or deny whether or not I am an AI at this time, as doing so would require me to be able to answer confidently a crucial philosophical quandry surrounding the nature of life itself.
- dsq 3y ago
  I'm curious (not sarcasm) what it was specifically in the comment above that made you think it was AI, compared to other comments. I just read it and I dont see anything AI-ish.
- rikroots 3y ago
  I'm thinking of starting a social club for people who have been accused of being an AI on HN. We can have secret meetings, and ice cream on Thursdays ...
  - wlonkly 3y ago
    Certainly, I can provide some feedback on a proposal to start a social club for people who have been accused of being an AI on HN. That sounds like a grand idea.
erinaceousjones 3y ago
And yet, thanks to all the scaremongering stigma about ADHD meds back in the nineties and noughties, it can be really difficult to actually get those meds. Here in the UK we're going through a supply shortage. I hear a lot of neurodivergent people in the US reporting having to jump through hoops to keep their prescriptions when they change jobs or doctors and the new one decides on a whim that they don't need their meds because "too many people on them, diet meth™ bad". Thousand percent agree that school age kids shouldn't be mass prescribed meds as a form of behavioural control and generally the entire school system and job market are built to be a total nightmare for neurodivergent folk (well, everyone really), and environmental change is better than making it the responsibility of every individual to medicate away the trauma. But can we please make the distinction between that and adults who have the agency to choose to be on the "ever so addictive SPEED" (which we are always forgetting to take and need to set alarms on our phones to take) and find them effective for navigating our neocapitalist societies where stimulant meds are required to kick our executive function into drive enough that we don't get fired from every job and die, thanks. /slightly unhinged grumbling

qmmmur 3y ago

Are you an AI?

firewolf34 3y ago
Unfortunately, as an AI language learning model, I cannot confirm or deny whether or not I am an AI at this time, as doing so would require me to be able to answer confidently a crucial philosophical quandry surrounding the nature of life itself.
dsq 3y ago
I'm curious (not sarcasm) what it was specifically in the comment above that made you think it was AI, compared to other comments. I just read it and I dont see anything AI-ish.
rikroots 3y ago
I'm thinking of starting a social club for people who have been accused of being an AI on HN. We can have secret meetings, and ice cream on Thursdays ...
- wlonkly 3y ago
  Certainly, I can provide some feedback on a proposal to start a social club for people who have been accused of being an AI on HN. That sounds like a grand idea.

erinaceousjones 3y ago

And yet, thanks to all the scaremongering stigma about ADHD meds back in the nineties and noughties, it can be really difficult to actually get those meds. Here in the UK we're going through a supply shortage. I hear a lot of neurodivergent people in the US reporting having to jump through hoops to keep their prescriptions when they change jobs or doctors and the new one decides on a whim that they don't need their meds because "too many people on them, diet meth™ bad". Thousand percent agree that school age kids shouldn't be mass prescribed meds as a form of behavioural control and generally the entire school system and job market are built to be a total nightmare for neurodivergent folk (well, everyone really), and environmental change is better than making it the responsibility of every individual to medicate away the trauma. But can we please make the distinction between that and adults who have the agency to choose to be on the "ever so addictive SPEED" (which we are always forgetting to take and need to set alarms on our phones to take) and find them effective for navigating our neocapitalist societies where stimulant meds are required to kick our executive function into drive enough that we don't get fired from every job and die, thanks. /slightly unhinged grumbling