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I predict that over prescription of ADHD medication in the US is going to viewed as a massive public health misstep in 40 years.

• sgarland 2y ago
  Even if your prediction is correct, the immediate benefits in day-to-day life for people with ADHD cannot be overlooked. Thus far, the only serious side effects I’m aware of are: * A slight increase in cardiovascular-related conditions in the first few years after starting stimulant medication. This can be mitigated to a large extent by not using stimulants if your resting heart rate or blood pressure are already elevated. * An increased risk of manic episodes for people already predisposed to bipolar disorder, again, for stimulant medications. If someone in your family has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, don’t use a stimulant to treat ADHD. Here’s [0] a meta-study on the subject. [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6697582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6697582/
• giraffe_lady 2y ago
  People have been predicting this for 40 years already so any day now I guess?
• mrangle 2y ago
  Acknowledging that this is a pedantic correction: I think that there will be an acknowledgement of over diagnosis of ADHD. First line treatments are what they are. But also that, in tandem, there will be acknowledgement of under diagnosis of Type 1 Autism. Precisely because it is so diagnostically evasive "and can mimic ADHD". However, the correction that I'd make of the quoted phrase is that, likely, inattentive ADHD wholly is misdiagnosed Type 1 Autism in my opinion. And that ADHD will come to be seen as Spectrum disorder, for which certain manifestations (ie: not inattentive) do not necessarily crossover with the Autism part of the (soon to be wider) Spectrum. How that might look, in families, is that those with non-autistic ADHD individuals could be observed to more often contain autistic individuals. See, for example: https://scitechdaily.com/developmental-twist-new-study-links-autism-to-disrupted-dopamine/ https://scitechdaily.com/developmental-twist-new-study-links...
  • sgarland 2y ago
    That makes sense to me. My psych and therapist both told me that there is a lot of crossover in symptoms between ADHD and Autism. Anecdotally, my sister has long maintained that I’m on the spectrum.
  • tanepiper 2y ago
    Why did they use a creepy AI generated child for the hero image?
• theshackleford 2y ago
  We all have uninformed opinions.
• P_I_Staker 2y ago
  ADHD medication is heavily heavily under-prescribed. It's genocide.