I recently spoke to a child psychiatrist who admitted he sees same thing in ADHD reviews to when he took speed during his uni revision
@thus_spake_z Stimulant treatment is dangerous, but there's literally nearly nothing else available, and stimulants do work.
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@St_Rev Oh, I don't dispute that they work. I think I might have to write this ponder as a blog post. Hard to ponder in 140 characters. -
@thus_spake_z It sucks that they're also recreational drugs with high abuse potential. It's a very difficult calculation.
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@St_Rev Then again, the same could be said for morphine, nitrous oxide etc -
@thus_spake_z Are you familiar with Eroom's Law?
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@St_Rev Reading about it now. I believe@MarkOneinFour mentioned how this is happening with psychiatric medication research -
@thus_spake_z Most of the (thoroughly inadequate) substances I use to manage it now are either old OTC drugs (caffeine, nicotine gum), or...
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@St_Rev And the main treatment for ADHD is still methylphenidate, invented in the 1950s -
@thus_spake_z Or dextroamphetamine, synthesized in 1887.
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