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> A large part of the blame lays on her.

I'd say all the blame lays on her.

When you know your gaming a system by either buying a drug from a dealer, using a crooked doctor to write your prescriptions, taking more than your prescribed dosage, and not reading the warning label on the bottle every time you take a dose out of it, its hard to believe that you didn't understand the consequences of what you were doing.

I'm prescribed adderall and your comment dissuades me from taking it 100x more than this article does, even more than the warning label does.

Even if you were exaggerating anything, I found more keywords to research from just the first paragraph than I would get out of 10 of these types of NY Times articles.




Check out Dr.Sulzer's research. A lot of these studies are very hard to understand without some organic chem and biochem background.

Reading the abstract is simply not enough feel the significance of these research.

The other problem is access to these articles through journal subscription is quite expensive.

I always figure that methamphetamine does some long-term damage, but when they found melanin accumulation in the neurons by examining brain slices, it was pretty alarming.

The mechanism of action between amphetamine and methamphetamine is too similar to rule out the possibility of long-term damage.

It just doesn't make sense to take adderall when dexmethylphenidate (focalin) gives most of the benefit without ritalin's side effects.

In the long-term, I'm still quite leery of dexmethylphenidate, particularly how it acts as a releaser at high concentration.

I haven't come across any papers that describe its mechanism of action as a releasing agent.

This is another reason why I only use it to study and practice piano. As long as you're learning, it's easy to justify that the benefit outweigh the cost.




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