This is why I pay for Pirate Wires.
> Over the weekend, in a long thoughtful feature on ADHD, the New York Times tackled the question of whether we should be prescribing 23% of adolescent male Americans with amphetamines. The downsides: they triple your likelihood of developing mania, permanently stunt your growth, often conclude in daily depressive crashes, and don’t really work after 14 months. The upside: they help you sit still in class and finish various tasks like a lab rat. There’s no known biological basis for ADHD because inability to care about school is not an actual disease, no matter what a bunch of drug dealers with doctorates tell a young boy’s worried parents. One of the classic symptoms is the ability to focus, but only on what you find interesting. That isn’t a pathology, that’s a personality, and Adderall isn’t medicine. It’s a drug we use to turn young, thoughtful men into robots. Put down the “good meth,” and go outside.
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