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by satellite2 842 days ago
It depends on the drugs. Amphetamines generally display improved cognitive performances in RCTs.
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I would be interested to see the studies on this and whether or not they controlled for non previously diagnosed ADHD when selecting participants.

I take Amphetamines for ADHD and narcolepsy so they obviously improve my performance- but I’ve also worked with people that abused them and felt like they were performing much better than normal but in reality were just delivering (anecdotally) sloppier pull requests at a faster rate.