Amphetamine is certainly effective and fairly well understood in its clinical effects. There is no doubt about its effectiveness and principal uses and side ef

Amphetamine is certainly effective and fairly well understood in its clinical effects. There is no doubt about its effectiveness and principal uses and side effects. (Adderall(^tm) is a brand name for amphetamine.) Serotonin reuptake inhibitors used for mood management are just a matter of trying them and seeing if you like the way they feel. It's exactly as scientific as drinking liquor or smoking marijuana to see if it makes you more mellow. But doctors are going around collecting rent on their prescription pads by writing scrips for Paxil and Prozac and the like as if they were technical and carefully calibrated professional tools that required twelve years of college and med school and internships and apprenticeships to master and administer. They're doing all that training and then providing the same service as witch doctors -- but for a lot more money.