FDA approves new ADHD drug for children

Re:FDA approves new ADHD drug for children by astrange on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @03:26AM (#26709056)

> If you overlap Elon Musks behavior (or a number of quite famous musicians) with ADHD diagnosis charts, you’re going to have a fun time.

That's cocaine. You're thinking of cocaine.

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Re:FDA approves new ADHD drug for children by daniel-cussen on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:18PM (#26729699)

There's users[1] finding out later they got hooked because they had ADD, and they could have gotten all the benefits of a stimulant without the medical harm, medical risk, legal risk, expense, burned bridges, and emotional problems of cocaine if they could address their ADD properly.

[1] I think it was on this forum that there was a comment about people finding out they had ADD after landing in prison for drug-related crimes.

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Re:FDA approves new ADHD drug for children by lazide on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:25PM (#26714725)

Interestingly enough, many people can easily mistake untreated ADHD (or not adequately controlled) with cocaine and stimulant use, especially hyperactive type. Cocaine and stimulant use in people without ADHD obviously causes that issue (cocaine use), along with some other problems (euphoria, lack of empathy, megalomania, sleep problems).

It’s quite striking when you see it happen with someone you know (all while wondering if they’re high on cocaine or something), then they get treated and are able to calm down and focus - and still can be hyperactive if pushed that way environmentally - but are functional, calmer, have more empathy, are able to talk and be more social, etc. All while getting large doses of Adderall or the like that would make your average non-ADHD’er impossible to be around.

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Re:FDA approves new ADHD drug for children by astrange on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:47PM (#26720388)

> Interestingly enough, many people can easily mistake untreated ADHD (or not adequately controlled) with cocaine and stimulant use, especially hyperactive type. Cocaine and stimulant use in people without ADHD obviously causes that issue (cocaine use), along with some other problems (euphoria, lack of empathy, megalomania, sleep problems).

This is true but I should point out that "normal people" taking stimulants won't necessarily get hyper. You might get more calm and focused too. Claiming that Adderall works differently on ADHD people is a sort of marketing technique to stop it from getting banned entirely (like it is in Asia), because otherwise even more people would be trying to use it as a study drug.

Somehow modafinil has a reputation as a wonder drug that works on everyone, even though the way it works is not very different.

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