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Re:Intellectual pursuits may buffer the brain against addiction by tokai on Saturday July 18, 2015 @06:14PM (#9909165)
Amphetamine and methamphetamine is not the same drug.
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Re:Intellectual pursuits may buffer the brain against addiction by CamperBob2 on Saturday July 18, 2015 @06:29PM (#9909203)
True, but I'm assuming he was on Desoxyn, as opposed to some low-grade diet pills.
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Re:Intellectual pursuits may buffer the brain against addiction by serf on Saturday July 18, 2015 @09:41PM (#9909705)
Paul Hoffman's biography of Erdos :

"Erdös first did mathematics at the age of three, but for the last twenty-five years of his life, since the death of his mother, he put in nineteen-hour days, keeping himself fortified with 10 to 20 milligrams of Benzedrine or Ritalin, strong espresso, and caffeine tablets. "[0]

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-man.html

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Re:Intellectual pursuits may buffer the brain against addiction by vellum on Saturday July 18, 2015 @10:38PM (#9909827)
10-20 mg of Ritalin isn't that much. The average adult with ADHD takes 20-30 mg.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC181133/

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