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A comment on Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you? by entrynode on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @09:38AM (#27528383)
People abusing ADHD medication like that is the reason that the medication is so tightly controlled and hard to get as someone who actually has ADHD though.

It stops being "Their body, their choice." when tangible harm is being caused to people who actually need the medication to treat a neurodevelopmental disorder.

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Re:Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you? by texasbigdata on Sunday June 20, 2021 @01:49AM (#27567483)
You get 30 pills for 30 days. I can’t buy alcohol on Sunday morning either, and I get the personal freedom aspect, but it’s very predominantly used in children, CVS literally has one variant that’s just “methamphetamine” (a hilarious generic), so having some constraint seems reasonable.
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Re:Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you? by entrynode on Thursday June 24, 2021 @06:27AM (#27615812)
This isn't a "personal freedom" thing for me.

I'm talking as someone who was denied medical treatment for 7 years because the first specialist I saw assumed, based on my age, that I was trying to scam them for a prescription.

Those years were basically lost, and that wouldn't have happened if there wasn't so many people seeking phony diagnoses.

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