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I suffer ADHD and Adderall (amphetamine) is a cure for alot of people who have it. Calling it the street name of an illicit drug makes treatment infinitely harder for other people who suffer it.
While the treatment doesn't work for me (high blood pressure and naturally easily agitated), if I don't stand up and say 'hey that ain't fucking right!' then I haven't done a god damn thing to help my fellow ADHD kid and that don't sit right with me.
I have ADHD and I'm on stimulants so I agree calling it by the street name isn't helpful, but it's also not inaccurate.
I maintain the only reason it has that street name is due to ignorance of the difference between Adderall and meth. Wasn't too long ago I was listen to conspiracy theorists say it was the same thing based on some bullshit they heard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obetrol came before Adderall
There's no meth in Adderall but this is where the confusion probably comes from.
And for those who don’t have ADHD Adderall gets them WIRED.
For those wondering what WIRED means, it means that for the effective time of the drug in our systems we don't have 5 million conflicting thoughts in our heads and for the first time in our lives we can focus on a task, remember tiny details, not run into various obstacles, and a myriad of other tasks that people without ADHD have never struggled with.
In short, for the 4 hours that pill is in our system and working, we can experience being fucking normal and not a gigantic mess struggling to juggle everything life needs from us.
My brother in ADHD, you need to chill the fuck out. You’re replying to someone who said Adderall makes people who DON’T have ADHD wired. They didn’t say anything about what it does for people with ADHD.
You aren’t being persecuted here. No one is calling you a speed addict because you take Adderall. But denying that amphetamines existed before Adderall and that amphetamine is included in the broad street name “speed” is silly. Take the L, stop obsessing on this one. Just let it go.
(Now, if your ADHD behaves like mine, just be glad this conversation didn’t happen in person. Because I’d have it intrusively replaying in my head for the rest of my life in your shoes if it happened in person.)