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Can you cite that? You're opposing mainstream medication usage all over this thread, so it's hard to take each comment as gospel.

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As a sufferer myself, what he's claiming is along the lines of 'stopping blood loss has never been proven to meaningfully affect health'. The difference on and off meds is night and day, between 'brain-scrambled mess' and 'actual thinking human being'

I also was diagnosed with ADHD and took Ritalin then Adderall for years. I stopped taking them in medical school and actually got better grades.

Regardless of my personal experience or your personal experience the evidence does not show that stimulants increase grades in the medium or long term.

SSRIs don't have clinically relevant effects. The following study is a review article. It cites most of the meta analysis the are relevant.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/?report...

I am still trying to find the studies that indicate that stimulants might increase high school drop out. But there is pretty clear consensus that they don't increase grades over the long term.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w19105

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