I consider it to be closer to common sense than a "bold statement". Amphetamine is a highly addictive drug with serious side effects. As a nation, we prosecute those who engage in the unlicensed manufacture of amphetamine and its analogs.

As for ADHD, the man who first described the condition later confessed he fabricated the whole thing.

>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Was your comment more thoughtful or substantive than the one you responded to?

> As for ADHD, the man who first described the condition later confessed he fabricated the whole thing.

What is that man's name?

Dr. Leon Eisenberg

Eisenberg wasn't the first person who described the disease we know now as ADHD. In anti-ADHD circles he's called the "father of ADHD" or some other such epithet, and he clearly made significant research in the early days, but he was not the inventor nor the only one working on it.

A quick search turns up

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/work-of-fiction/

>A software-based translation of that article from German to English does describe Dr. Eisenberg as the “father of ADHD” and report that during his “last interview” he said something similar to “ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.” However, when one allows for the vagaries of translation from German to English and reads the statement in context, it’s clear that Dr. Eisenberg wasn’t asserting that ADHD isn’t a real disorder, but rather that he thought the influence of genetic predispositions for ADHD (rather than social/environmental risk factors) were vastly overestimated [...]

> I consider it to be closer to common sense than a "bold statement".

I experienced a set of symptoms that makes it harder for me to stay focused than most people. It would make it difficult to do my job, as it was to succeed in school before I was medicated (it's no surprise to me that I flunked out of high school at first).

Adderall ameliorates these symptoms drastically without major side effects. I don't seem to be addicted as I frequently (if briefly) stop taking it for reasons of avoiding tolerance. Please explain to me what's wrong about this? Should I stop taking Adderall, to hell with the reduced quality of life, because someone on the internet says a chemical substance meant to treat my symptoms is not "medicine"?