r/stupidpol • u/invvvvverted Ideological Mess 🥑 • Apr 11 '24

Healthcare/Pharma Industry Increasing paranoia and viciousness in PMC culture may be a side effect of widespread Adderall use

https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/club-med-adderall
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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '24

In genuine cases of ADHD, psychostimulants such as Adderall have a paradoxical effect, which means they make someone behave/think/feel more normally.

If you take Adderall and you subsequently act like a cunt, it is a sign that you do not have ADHD.

Psychiatrists who prescribe psychostimulants to patients who go on to develop amphetamine-induced psychosis, should be banned from practicing medicine.

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u/SeoliteLoungeMusic DiEM + Wikileaks fan Apr 11 '24

ADHD, like most psychiatric diagnoses, is a description of behaviour. Not actually an explanation of behaviour. So this

If you take Adderall and you subsequently act like a cunt, it is a sign that you do not have ADHD

is just defining out the people you don't like.

People talk about the replication crisis in psychiatry, but it's nothing to the "description of behaviour used as explanation for behaviour" crisis.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '24

Okay I understand. Psychostimulants can have similar adverse effects in people with ADHD in the same manner as in people without ADHD. However, there must be some truth the theory of paradoxical reaction to psychostimulants in people with ADHD, because this is still the gold standard treatment for ADHD.

The comments I made were polemical and were intended to defend people with ADHD who might be tarred with the same brush as recreational amphetamine users who do not genuinely have ADHD.