A drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.

A drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.

  • bramblepatchmystery@slrpnk.net
    2·
    9 months ago

    That is not true. Over 50℅ of people in jail for methamphetamines are diagnosed with ADHD.

    These claims of adderall not being addictive to people who truly have it was never true (especially for non attentives) and the only reason that line got pushed so hard was to escape legal and moral culpability for turning 10 year old children into drug addicts.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
      6·
      9 months ago

      Methamphetamine and amphetamine are quite different things. The extra methyl group, while a tiny change, causes significant alterations in how it interacts with the brain’s dopamine signaling. This is also hypothesized to be involved in the greater likelihood of addiction seen in meth.

      • bramblepatchmystery@slrpnk.net
        1·
        9 months ago

        If we assume that people with ADHD are impervious to amphetamine addiction (as we were told) but have higher rates of methyl addiction, as I think you are insinuating, that’s actually a very great argument for not introducing amphetamines to people with ADHD.

        I’m not saying some of us don’t benefit from ADHD, I just think there are other options now in the market that aren’t turning 11 year old children into bona fide drug addicts.