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by const_cast 411 days ago
> Let's be explicitly clear, they're amphetamine salts; we're drugging kids with amphetamine uppers.

If it saves them becoming smokers later, then good.

The reality is that people with ADHD will just medicate with other more harmful, more addictive stimulants like nicotine.

I'm willing to wager that a large reason why we "see" ADHD more is because we have less self-medication. Smoking is out of fashion. I'm sure in, say, the 70s it was trivial to be a high-functioning person with ADHD and never know it. I mean, every other person was smoking - you fit right in.