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[-] null@slrpnk.net 23 points 10 months ago

What? People absolutely abuse Adderall to get high...

[-] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

They do, but the point is that you shouldn't assume that's the case simply because someone takes adderal. The vast majority of the time, they take it as directed to treat their ADHD.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 8 points 9 months ago

Brad from the post doesn't read that way

[-] force@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

People abuse literally any psychoactive substance to get high, the point is a majority of people who take Adderall or any other common ADHD medication aren't.

The people who go around acting like those who treat their disorder are druggies, and derived from that is the myth that ADHD is overdiagnosed rather than severely underdiagnosed (especially in adults, women, and minorities), are why it's so inaccessible to a lot of people who it can help immensely. It's been a massive problem for a while now, even media like South Park have been taking that kind of angle attacking ADHD diagnoses/meds for the past few decades.

Actually expanding on this, a large portion of people who illegally use such medications, e.g. for doing schoolwork or studying in university, have undiagnosed ADD and are unknowingly self-medicating. Something like Adderall doesn't really have affects very different from a bunch of caffeine on non-ADHD minds, it mostly just makes you more alert and less sleepy (on the contrary, a lot of people with ADHD can feel fatigued/sleepy when taking stimulants because now their mind doesn't have 50 thoughts at once going off at lightning speed 24/7). Who would have guessed ADHD medication helps people with ADHD?

I mean it's stupid that (in the US at least) we have a society that thinks "some people abuse this drug therefore we should make it extremely hard to get or make it illegal (as long as it's not alcohol or nicotine) and we should act like most people who use it are abusers and addicts" but it is what it is.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah but Brad's a deadbeat

[-] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago
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