Almost anybody, ADHD diagnosis or not, will feel and perform better on low dose amphetamine like Adderall. It's not surprising there's a demand for it — and actors who know how to profit from it.
the germans tried this with their troops in ww2 - hint: it didn't go so well for them.
I don't think you'll find a single mainstream historian who would agree with that take.
Germany lost the war because they lacked the logistics to sustain a multi-front war against the combined military and industrial power of the USSR, the United States, and Great Britain. No amount of pervitin added or subtracted from this equation would have changed that outcome.
using pills and not resting enough was a symptom of the problem of having to fight a war in two fronts, not resting and taking pills was not the problem itself..
Frankly, it sounds to me like you've let Norman Ohler's pop history book, Blitzed, disproportionately color your perception of the second world war.
I see it claimed a lot, but if so I'm surprised there isn't more open discussion in places like HN with people saying "I did the research and boosted my productivity by taking drug X".
Even if it only makes you feel better, there were people talking about micro dosing LSD for a while when that was fashionable.
As someone who was diagnosed several times with “adhd” - there is zero science to it. No medical tests to prove its existence. You’ll just get a drug after the first or second visit and who doesn’t want to defend their addiction online?
If you want focus, don’t take drugs. Exercise, eat healthy, self-discipline yourself
ADHD is real. It's helped with meds. Denying its existence because of your own bad experience is going to hurt others.
Listen to professionals' advice, not self-help advice.
Can you explain why experts believe there's science behind it?
How can you state this so confidently?
> You’ll just get a drug after the first or second visit and who doesn’t want to defend their addiction online?
Do you know how much people with ADHD hate their meds and want to avoid taking it, but cant?
Then they avoid taking it for a few days for a break, but the break turns into 2 weeks of disarray without medication.
For most people with ADHD, staying on the drug is the hard part. On top of all of this, there are ADHD drugs that aren't stimulants if one reacts negatively to it. It's not the 70s anymore. Pushing stereotypes is a horrible thing to do, please refrain from it in the future.
Physical tests, or checklists?
The same thing happens on opiate threads. The people who have been on opiates for a decade explain that their pain is the real kind that can only be helped by opiates. Take anyone with no pain at all, put them on opiates for ten years, and they'll say the same thing.
Because it's true. If you take away the opiates, they will be in all kinds of agony. They may have created deficiencies in their reward system that will never recover. That's not the same as saying that opiates are helping people (in the long term), or that pain is a deficiency of opiates.
edit: and there's no way out of this other than stopping big pharma from funding patients' rights groups, either directly or indirectly, and/or lobbying through them. Patients' rights groups from the 80s on were the Patient Zero of non-profits acting as political front groups for large financial interests.