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Re:Ways to maximize your cognitive potential by slig on Thursday June 30, 2016 @09:29AM (#12008333)
Have you tried any meds to ADD?
Re:Ways to maximize your cognitive potential by atemerev on Thursday June 30, 2016 @10:48AM (#12008906)
Yes. They make things slightly better, but they don't magically fix everything.
Re:Ways to maximize your cognitive potential by whenwillitstop on Thursday June 30, 2016 @09:47AM (#12008447)
You mean legal cocaine?
Re:Ways to maximize your cognitive potential by marxidad on Thursday June 30, 2016 @10:18AM (#12008702)
Legal amphetamine.
Re:Ways to maximize your cognitive potential by atemerev on Thursday June 30, 2016 @11:07AM (#12009047)
Incidentally, the response of somebody with ADD to Adderall is completely different compared to response of a normal person to amphetamines. It is more like "relaxed concentration" than stimulation.

Therapeutic dose of Adderall is way smaller than "recreational" doses of amphetamine. It has to be carefully calibrated by therapist. Higher doses will lead to headaches and, paradoxically, tiredness and drowsiness — not stimulation.

Re:Ways to maximize your cognitive potential by GoodOldNe on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:31PM (#12009677)
"Higher doses will lead to headaches and, paradoxically, tiredness and drowsiness — not stimulation."

False. You're right in that it won't help them very much -- specifically because taking overdoses of amphetamines tends to lead to things like insomnia, tachycardia/dehydration, and mania/psychosis.

Re:Ways to maximize your cognitive potential by atemerev on Thursday June 30, 2016 @05:04PM (#12011700)
The effects I described were experienced by me during the calibration period, where I took higher dose than me and my therapist eventually settled on. Perhaps it might work differently for some people, but this is what I heard from other people who suffer from ADHD and tried to take higher doses.
Re:Ways to maximize your cognitive potential by whenwillitstop on Thursday June 30, 2016 @11:02AM (#12009005)
My apologies, didn't realize there was a difference between two drugs that both flood your receptors with dopamine in almost the exact same brain regions.
Re:Ways to maximize your cognitive potential by marxidad on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:18PM (#12009587)
They act similarly, but it's weird to call it legal cocaine. Cocaine also strongly targets serotonin and norepinephrine and is a lot more addictive.