Re:Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug...
by notch898a on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:13PM
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I'm pretty much ok with the system you appeared to have went with, which is wait for hard-core amphetamine use until they're an adult and able to decide for themselves the cost benefit analysis.
These kind of questions regarding the benefits of kids can be exceedingly difficult to answer. From a moral perspective, like you I take the hardcore an-cap kind of viewpoint that the family has the right to inject hard drugs for fulfilling what they view as industrial output needed for survival. Ultimately perhaps we have to trust the parent is making the best choice for their own family and try to defer to the family in this kind of gray area. Personally I would never give my kid amphetamines unless it was unambiguously life and death like they were unable to perform day to day activities without it.
The flip side of this is that being unable to thrive in the system they're in is effectively dooming them to a substandard, more difficult life. If you think the system is broken, fix it, but ripping off the bandage before you have any sutures on hand is the opposite of a solution.
If I had started on medication younger, I undoubtedly would have done better in high school. If I had done better in high school, I would have gone to a better college, better college, better job etc. On the flip side, had I not gotten medicated in college, I very well could have flunked out.
So, yeah, it's a fucked up that the system doesn't accommodate for people slightly outside neurotypical-ness, requiring stimulant use to thrive, just like it's fucked up that it doesn't accommodate deaf people, making cochlear implants an extremely valuable treatment. But so long as that system is in place, restricting access to harm mitigation from that system because the system is fucked is unquestionably wrong.