Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
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[Previously in series: Antidepressant Pharmacogenomics: Much More Than You Wanted To Know; SSRIs: Much More Than You Wanted To Know, etc. This is all preliminary and you should not take it as a rea…

this btw is why we now see some of the TPOT rationalists microdosing street meth as a substitute. also that they’re idiots, of course.

somehow this man still has a medical license

    • jonhendry@awful.systemsEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I suspect (without evidence) that what a lot of the NT people get from ADHD stimulants is not so much focus but “better alertness than you get from caffeine”. And being more alert by itself would probably help an NT person focus especially when they’re burning the candle at both ends.

      As opposed to needing the extra dopamine in the frontal lobe to kick the executive function into gear to concentrate at all.

      To really test this you’d probably have to get some NT people and some ADHD people, ensure that they’re well-rested, fed with adequate nutrition, exercised a bit, and have them do an incredibly fucking boring task both medicated and unmedicated. (Perhaps take in a 90 minute lecture and do a quiz about the medieval open-field farming system.)