How To Take Ritalin Correctly

Re:How To Take Ritalin Correctly by DanielBMarkham on Sunday July 05, 2009 @06:14PM (#688796)

Point taken. I will consider it. For now, however, I'm of the opinion that there's a lot more herb use around the world than Ritalin use, and in 5 or ten years maybe all these experimenters with brain enhancement (and not simple amphetamines) will give us better data to make decisions with.

I think there is an implied dichotomy that I did not mean to make: I'm perfectly happy with people hacking their brains. I'm perfectly happy with the natural state of mankind being some sort of intoxication, whether it's spoiled fruits, running, nicotine, or whatever.

I'm just amused at the rationales being used, which seem to me to have all sort of inner contradictions.

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Re:How To Take Ritalin Correctly by rjurney on Sunday July 05, 2009 @07:16PM (#688849)

According to wikipedia, amphetamine was first synthesized in 1887, has been used since 1927. Its been almost 100 years.

Ritalin was synthesized in 1954. In use clinically for 50 years.

How's that for data? Pretty good, I'd say. It is well known that these chemicals at high levels eat people's souls, but do not do much physical damage. At clinical doses they're harmless. Some caution in kids for heart shenanigans. They're very well characterized.

I expressed some of the same concerns you did to my doctor when he first prescribed me amphetamine. He told me about his speed freak patients, and how they returned to normal after coming off.

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