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Re:After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant... by arcticbull on Friday November 08, 2024 @02:42AM (#42085032)
The more interesting take for me is that these meds work roughly the same way and almost as well in people without ADHD (a symptom cluster, not a single disease per se, like everything else in the DSM). As we give them to people with ADHD why not let anyone get a scrip?
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Re:After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant... by Llamamoe on Friday November 08, 2024 @03:02AM (#42085121)
People without ADHD already get more than enough benefit from just coffee. Stimulants might be able to benefit them further, but if you let anyone take them, eventually it'd become expected of everyone due to their increased productivity, and the potential consequences of abuse are much higher than coffee.
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Re:After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant... by arcticbull on Friday November 08, 2024 @03:38AM (#42085311)
Chronic use of caffeine blunts the effects, it doesn't do much to regular drinkers. You develop tolerance very quickly. I can drink several cups and get basically no effect. Apparently your body just increases the quantity of adenosine receptors in the brain to offset the caffeine.
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Re:After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant... by atemerev on Friday November 08, 2024 @04:29AM (#42085549)
Well, I yet to see someone without ADHD who becomes calmer and slows down after taking stimulants.
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