Faine Greenwood: People with ADHD who are properly medicated appear to have much lower substance abuse rates than people who aren’t medicated, per this study. Adding extra irony to the current DEA moral panic. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

You do have to question just how prevelant dangerous addiction problems are with a legal drug that people notoriously have to be reminded to take.

It’s true that it’s possible to be addicted to stimulant medications, but it’s also true that tons of people who use ADHD meds legally struggle with *remembering to take them* - which I don’t think is an issue with benzo or opiate addicts.

I do wonder if ADHD people experience stimulant addiction differently than neurotypicals for some drugs

extremely high correlation to polydrug consumption/addiction, as i recall

People with ADHD who are properly medicated appear to have much lower substance abuse rates than people who aren’t medicated, per this study. Adding extra irony to the current DEA moral panic. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Stimulant ADHD medication and risk for substance abusewww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov There are persistent concerns of long-term effects of stimulant ADHD medication on the development of substance abuse.Using Swedish national registers, we studied all individuals born 1960–1998 and di...

one story that could explain this is under-dx

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