[N]o other class of medications in virtually all of medicine inspires more baseless fears, intentional disinformation, and wild beliefs as do the stimulants used to treat ADHD.

Interestingly, these fears are almost entirely an American phenomenon that hardly exists elsewhere in the world.

[H]aving ADHD lowers a person’s estimated life expectancy by 12.7 years.


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  • ADHD medication use lowers risk of death by 19%, risk of overdose by 50%, and it reduces hospitalizations

  • [T]he risk of substance abuse decreases substantially when [ADHD] patients are treated with stimulant medication

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    because sometimes people take them and feel “high” and one of the pillars of global capitalism is the puritanical “suffering is virtuous” ideology that targets drugs that have any positive emotional effect.

    It’s why we so heavily target opiates*, cannabinoids, and amphetamines.

    * yeah even if opiates aren’t as safe as other drugs they’re important for pain management and their stigma, not their safety, is what drives their repression.