Recreational use of stimulants like Adderall by individuals without ADHD increases the risk of abuse, addiction, and future psychotic episodes. — Whalespan
Recreational use of stimulants like Adderall by individuals without ADHD increases the risk of abuse, addiction, and future psychotic episodes.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“here what I'm talking about is a lot of the recreational and off prescription use of Adderall and things like it and what we know is that that sets in motion both a potential for abuse and addiction to that feeling and substance as well as a higher potential for psycho episodes down the road”
“whereas anyone who takes these drugs without a prescription and decides okay I want to focus more or I'm going to use this to stay up for a couple of days in other words using it recreationally or using it for quote-unquote performance enhancement is that far greater risk for addiction to these substances because of the amplitude and the time course of dopamine that results when one takes these drugs just out of the blue”