• fuck_u_spez@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Honestly I don’t like the article (as someone with long-undiagnosed and unmedicated ADHD). A good doctor will guide you (you have to communicate correctly though), try different medications (stimulants like Adderall aren’t the only drug that is prescribed for ADHD), maybe try without for sometime (when your environment has changed to monitor the effects).

    What I’m reading in the article is that a lot of people are just uneducated (including the author of the article) about ADHD and effective treatment. And a distorted view on drugs in general, I read a lot of abuse, but no word of the most apparent (and dangerous) drugs that are totally legal and widely socially accepted but IMHO cause quite a lot harm to society (spoiler: I’m talking about alcohol and tobacco, and (although I also consume cannabis and can see quite a few good medical effects of it) - increasingly cannabis at least in the USA).

    What I would really like to see at some time is really good neutral science-backed education about psychiatric conditions, substances, abuse of them and liberalization/normalization of them (because war on drugs has just failed anyway), so that we don’t have to have these articles anymore (the main reason for the shortage AFAIK is that the DEA artificially restricts Adderall).