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by The_rationalist 1891 days ago
Can you back up your claims? Yes dextroamphetamine like all reuptake inhibitors have a neurotoxic risk. First of all I believe that long term studies does not shows neurotoxic harm. (but yeah are there studies that span more than 3 years?) Secondly stimulants are neurotrophic (promote neuron growth) and has been shown to fix abnormalities on ADHD brains.

To my knowledge neurotoxity is not an issue however stimulants loose their effectiveness after 2 years in the only more than 2 years study (are there been newer ones since then?) however this study contradict the perceived effectiveness that doctors and patients reports after two years. This paradox is a very poor state of knowledge and more research is really needed.