Laura Delano
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2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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with the caveat that some people have a really hard time getting off them, are stimulants like Adderall, Ritalin, Vyvanse.
Proved on the basis of short-term trials.
I mean, these drugs that are given for so-called ADD, ADHD, they're...
largely amphetamines, methamphetamine, they're speed.
They're basically speed.
If you give any human being speed, they're going to be able to focus on mundane, monotonous tasks that they're not interested in, at least for a short period of time.
So one of the things that happens often with people on stimulants, especially for people who grew up on stimulants, is that they...
first of all, become dependent on them fast.
So they develop tolerance.
So the drug that, you know, the dosage that they were previously on stops working.
So they're steadily increasing doses over years or adding a second stimulant.
That happens often.
But the tragedy here is, and there needs to be, there will be a reckoning around this, I think, soon.
I feel it coming is that you now have
You know, 30 somethings, 40 somethings who've been on stimulants since high school, since college, they've built careers based on their prescriptions, you know, and the terror they must feel.
My God, I'm a lawyer.
I've built this career for myself based on getting my my Adderall like I can't ever come off it because what if I can't do my job?
I think we have a serious, like, professional crisis here, especially for men, too.
My husband, Cooper, this was his story.
He was put on stimulants as a teenager and in his 20s became a journalist.
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