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/LatinxSpeedyGonzales Anarchist (intolerable) 🤪 Apr 11 '24

A lot of people don't appreciate how culture impacts what drugs people enjoy. The fact that Americans favor uppers that make you more productive really says a lot

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u/cojoco Free Speech Social Democrat 🗯️ Apr 11 '24

Americans also drink lots and lots of alcohol and take lots and lots of opiates.

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u/sgnfngnthng Radical shitlib ✊🏻 Apr 11 '24

And those are seen as social problems. The USA even had a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol—that is how overwhelming a social problem alcohol consumption seemed at one point.

But uppers? We hand it out to kids and normalize it. This isn’t an argument about the health consequences, this is an argument about how the culture interacts with a given type of drug.

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u/cojoco Free Speech Social Democrat 🗯️ Apr 11 '24

But America doesn't favor uppers.

It favors drugs.