Another thoroughly entertaining piece of dystopian nonfiction from @slatestarcodex: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ …pic.twitter.com/HuqvbKlocC
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I'm not really opposed to the Senior Regional Manipulator Of Tiny Numbers using Adderall to shuffle up the ladder to Vice President Of Staring At Giant Spreadsheets, if it's worth a +1% change in absolute Parkinson's risk to him. Don't hate the player, hate the game, yo
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But according to @CDCgov, 11% of kids aged 4-17 have been diagnosed with ADHD. I am *super* uncomfortable with putting a first-grader on Adderall so they'll more pliantly acquiesce to the demands of a school system with no room for developmental variance in its tiny prisoners.
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Given our bizarre expectations of children, it's not really *that* surprising that a professional researcher would witness a giddy kid pretending to run into an imaginary wall and note this down as a psychotic eventpic.twitter.com/3B85tF9ECd
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Let us all meditate on whether it might be a bad idea to hand our young children over to institutions governed by a society that in some cases cannot distinguish between imaginative play & actual psychosis
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