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  • Lumiluz@slrpnk.nettoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comI'm going to murder you now
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    5 days ago

    There’s nothing morally wrong, but there’s definitely something physically wrong with taking fentanyl when you don’t need fentanyl, especially long term. Like just because someone is addicted doesn’t mean they should stay addicted. I doubt you’re advocating for alcoholics to remain alcoholic for example.

    Also, I think you mean anyone against the usage of all drugs don’t have a valid opinion, not the creation of all drugs (there’s no good reason Krokodil should exist for example).



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    Dex_amphetamine_

    Meth_amphetamine_

    No, the thing linking the 2 is the amphetamine part. Which is the actual stimulant.

    The drug meth is actually just methamphetamine - there’s no “nasty crap” in it unless the person synthesizing it doesn’t refine and purify it well, which is true of basically all chemistry.

    A more apt comparison is a strong beer and wine - both technically different things, but both get you drink because of the alcohol ingredient in them. They’re both alcoholic drinks.

    Same with amphetamines - both are stimulants that have essentially the same effect. That’s specifically why they both work in treating ADHD. The only significant difference is one is legal (with a prescription) and the other isn’t, which of course means good luck getting it really pure and at the correct dosage. The only other difference is how fast acting / long lasting they are because of that tail molecule, but the part that has an actual effect on people is the amphetamine part.


  • Yeah but it has the “amphetamine” part that gives meth it’s kick. And that’s what most people think of when it comes to the drug - the effect it has on a standard person, not the chemical name (otherwise they’d be calling methylprednisolone “meth” too. And let’s face it, the majority of the population doesn’t know why it’s nicknamed meth either).

    On a legal scale, “amphetamines” are what’s regulated, not methyl groups.






  • … Did you read your own link?

    Not only are mostly all of the “citations” (hyperlinks) to this random website you linked just news articles (many of which don’t have actual citations or referenced research papers that are from the 21st century, or are articles from the 20th century), but some are heavily biased (quoting Jeff Bezos in the Washington Post, which he owns).

    Even the website auther themselves sometimes admit to their flawed analysis, such as equating SAT scores to IQ rather than an actual IQ test. Quote:

    Cognitive ability: For the first time ever, we just happen to have publicly known IQ data on every single living self-made person who was ever ranked as the richest American. As mentioned above, Bill Gates reportedly scored 1590 on the pre-1995 SAT, equating to an IQ of 170 (see chart at bottom of this article). 

    Jeff Bezos told The Washington Post he scored 1450, which equated to an IQ of 146. 
    According to biographer Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk scored 1400 on the pre-recentered SAT, equating to an IQ of 142. 

    According to his sister Doris, a woman administered an IQ test to Buffet at age 10 and he scored a couple points above 150. However back in 1940, most IQs were still calculated using the age ratio method meaning a 10-year-old who performed as well as the average 15.2-year-old, was developing at 152% his chronological age and thus assigned an IQ of 152. Although this method (normed entirely on whites) formed a Gaussian curve from IQ 50 to 150, the mean and SD were 101.8 and 16.4 respectively, a little higher than on most modern scales where the mean is set at 100 and the SD at 15.
    Converting to the modern scales gives Buffet an IQ of 146 (U.S. white norms; also 146 on U.S. norms).

    Or here, quoted:

    But Stanley suspected a self-reporting bias was inflating the numbers since “A students” were more likely to recall their score than “C students”.

    But most damming of all, is that this whole weird blog website is talking about a correlation between income and IQ, NOT that IQ determines income.

    Correlation isn’t causation. And it’s no surprise that people who can go to good schools, don’t have to worry about food, etc, do better on a test, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are inherently biologically more intelligent.