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by navjack27 1239 days ago
This is wrong. It's been shown over and over the people without ADHD get the impression that their concentration and ability to stick to things is improved. Only the impression of it. The reality is that they become more scatterbrained. People with ADHD show a reduction in the inability to concentrate the inability to focus their executive function and reduced aggression and anger and frustration. All things for the most part that people without ADHD seem to have increases of.
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>people without ADHD

How is that defined for a start? How is it measured?

I can have ADHD if I want amphetamine, the people diagnosing it and prescribing the drugs have obvious incentives to do so. That's the reason for the shortage in the first place. Same as with the earlier opioid epidemic. Should we presume that suddenly there was a massive increase in pain patients - or was it rather an increase in prescriptions?