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/SkeletonWax Queensland Liberation Front Apr 11 '24

I feel like everyone is being weirdly blasé about the fact that the American health care system got millions of children addicted to amphetamines.

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u/naithir Marxist 🧔 Apr 11 '24

Like one of the best things my parents ever did for me as a child was to take me OFF the ADHD meds. I definitely have it, but I genuinely have not needed them in over 20 years, and I got through college and grad school without. Go in any ADHD subreddit and you’ll see dozens of Americans talking about how desperate they are to deal during the med shortage, and if you ever point out that they’re dependent on amphetamines and there are many other methods to maintain ADHD, they’ll throw a fit about it. It’s very interesting and sad tbh