[d_graeme]

I'm calling bs on this. I despise the guy (even before his crash, the way he was literally worshipped even here on hn, as though he was some kind of crypo-saint, was embarassing), but let's try and keep the rumor-mongering to a minimum.

I've been junkreading all about ftx and it's silly founder the past couple of days, and nowhere have I read that he shot himself up with drugs. Let's not take tweets or posts by randos with an axe to grind as facts.

[bmitc]

It’s fine to be cautious, but you can basically infer this from his own tweets, where he directly admits to active amphetamine use and sleeping pills to sleep. Other evidence comes from former employee descriptions and even screenshots of the Parkinson’s medicine on his desk from some of his streams or interviews at his desk. It’s not hearsay, as far as I can tell.

FTX even had a company psychiatrist/therapist who admitted to prescribing ADHD medications to employees, but tried to play it off as saying the occurrence of ADHD at FTX was supposedly in line with other similar size groups of people. I have never heard of a company, especially of one so small, having a dedicated psychiatrist/therapist.