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Failed classes are not specific enough; it could simply be an IQ-related or something else entirely. Many people with ADHD-related symptoms are able to pass courses, especially pre-college, and sometimes with perfect grades. Their personal life or ability to function outside of an academic structure may tell a different story.

Adults don't need "legitimate" reasons, especially ones as nebulous as the strawmen listed above. Amphetamines have therapeutic potential for a range of conditions and are fairly benign if used responsibly and ideally temporarily. It's ridiculous that people have to jump through hoops (often quite expensive) or feign a specific illness for access to a better coffee substitute. With that said, 30mg+ dosages and the dominant prescription regimen (every day, no breaks, or you risk being cut off) are probably excessive for most individuals without extreme impairment.

I don't disagree with limiting its administration to children, but this should be handled by professionals on a case-by-case basis.

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I disagree. You need a legitimate reason if you are going to get it from a physician or psychiatrist. If you believe the drug should be available to all adults, then this I also agree with. I'd rather no one make up false symptoms, but a psychiatrist/physician needs to assess on honest criteria. If your justification is "because I believe it will work for me", then just go buy it. Unfortunately, our rules are different. It's not a strawman to suggest that many people just want it because they see the pay-off from certain careers as worth it, this is not good enough clinically to prescribe someone this stuff. Just wanting it is not enough in the paradigm that exists (which is that of therapeutic benefit for an illness).

Another example of this is Ozempic. It's pretty much being used as a vanity drug, but a doctor's criteria should always be related to an illness and real symptoms. These ADHD drugs are very much study drugs used in schools and knowledge professions. So, we can keep bullshitting about it, but if you at least admit to that then I'll say go ahead and just sell that shit in dispensaries like weed - no questions asked.