Re:Amphetamine use in America's workforce
by eridius on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @04:01PM
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> I suspect I also get hositility from pointing out a lot of people think their medication is helping them but they really don't know about long term effects, but don't want to hear that they might be, you know, bad.
Except it appears as though it's actually pretty good. Long-term treatment with amphetamines appears to decrease abnormalities in brain structure and function in people with ADHD and improves function in several other parts of the brain. Wikipedia provides 3 citations for this, but only one study appears to be available online: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3801446/
Except it appears as though it's actually pretty good. Long-term treatment with amphetamines appears to decrease abnormalities in brain structure and function in people with ADHD and improves function in several other parts of the brain. Wikipedia provides 3 citations for this, but only one study appears to be available online: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3801446/