Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

Re:Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by russellbeattie on Saturday December 30, 2017 @05:33AM (#16034677)

I read it - the tone of the paragraph is that it's not really medication, but something like caffeine which you can give to everyone and it'll have the same effect. It doesn't work like that. The dose I take would make a non-ADHD person into an obsessive hyper-focused teeth-grinding mess, but it basically just makes me normal. Adderall is real medicine which cures a real problem.

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Re:Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by balfirevic on Saturday December 30, 2017 @05:41AM (#16034699)

> but something like caffeine which you can give to everyone and it'll have the same effect

Apparently, that is actually true (not the same magnitude of effect but the same kind of effect - better concentration). And it's not in any way contradictory to it also being a medication.

> The dose I take would make a non-ADHD person into an obsessive hyper-focused teeth-grinding mess, but it basically just makes me normal.

That is almost exactly what the quote above said.

> Adderall is real medicine which cures a real problem.

I honestly don't understand how you got the impression that the original article claimed otherwise.

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Re:Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by Yvain on Saturday December 30, 2017 @05:05PM (#16037911)

"The dose I take would make a non-ADHD person into an obsessive hyper-focused teeth-grinding mess, but it basically just makes me normal. Adderall is real medicine which cures a real problem."

I believe you, but couldn't you equally say "The dose of human growth hormone I take would turn a non-Chronic-Shortness-Syndrome person into a freakish giant, but it basically just makes me normal"?

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Re:Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by buttcoinslol on Saturday December 30, 2017 @08:59AM (#16035244)

But it does work like that, and drug tolerance is why you can eat a 30mg XR and be normal and I would be flying off anything more than 5-10mg IR.

Adderall has a lot of utility for regular people, it works exactly like caffeine. Eventually all that dopamine from the amphetamines is going to ruin all your receptors, hth.

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Re:Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by xorcist on Saturday December 30, 2017 @06:39AM (#16034844)

No, that's a myth. Dosage varies from person to person, but "more ADHD" (as in more severe AHDH-related problems) does not equal higher tolerance.

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Re:Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by drngdds on Sunday December 31, 2017 @11:14AM (#16041069)

What he's saying is that Adderall boosts anyone's ability to concentrate. The dose you take boosts your concentration levels from "really low" to "normal." It would boost a non-ADHD person's concentration levels from "normal" to "way overfocused."

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