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Reactions to ADHD meds vary widely among people with ADHD. Just because Desoxyn and Adderall are closely related doesn’t mean that a person who has good results with one will also get those good results with the other, especially not necessarily using the same dosage and timing.
All of this assumes they’re selling legitimate pharmaceutical methamphetamine with as much official oversight as other prescription drugs in Mexico. If this is black market meth, it’s even worse due to the unpredictable quality, purity, fillers, and dosage that come with the black market.
Uhhh I am a biochemist and I think being sold methamphetamine as Adderall is completely problematic. Under no circumstances is that okay, and it's potentially quite dangerous. Completely unacceptable.
The author is preying upon readers' cultural understanding of meth (via the news media and shows like Breaking Bad) as something inherently dirty, something for which there is no possible safe usage. The existence of FDA-approved meth ruins the framing even if FDA-grade is not what a buyer would be getting.
There are very few situations where prescribing methamphetamine is reasonable. It's a niche drug. Even XR formulations of Adderall are considered a blunt instrument compared to more recent alternatives.
The issue is one of trust, integrity, and safety. Pharmacies should not operate like drug dealers.
XR is obviously preferable to IR, but amphetamines have been falling out of favour over the years (it’s a slow trend). Vyvanse, NSRIs and even SSRIs tend to be regarded more and more favourably compared to amphetamines (Adderall) and methylphenidate (Ritalin).
(Disclaimer: I myself take Adderall XR 10mg as prescribed, so I have the opposite of a conflict of interest in this context.)
... changes nothing. If you don't expect to be getting meth, you shouldn't be getting meth.
Why you think that's relevant to a Mexican pharmacy selling meth as a completely different medication, and then having the audacity to call it "scare-mongering", is truly bizarro to me. I mean, fentanyl is commonly used as a prescription medication in the US. Would it be "scare mongering" if a journalist reported that a pharmacy sold fentanyl as Xanax without mentioning fentanyl can be used by prescription in the US? Why do you think that even matters?
You were in such a rush to castigate me that you didn't bother reading my reply to any other comment lol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38729414
Just read this article on The Atlantic and I would be scared considering what's passing for meth is considerably stronger than what people think nowadays:
Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
Yeah, this is "peak scaremongering"?
But by 2014 the new meth was everywhere. When that happened, “it seemed that people were losing their minds faster,” a Los Angeles Police Department beat officer named Deon Joseph told me. Joseph had worked Skid Row for 22 years. “They’d be okay when they were just using crack,” Joseph said. “Then in 2014, with meth, all of a sudden they became mentally ill. They deteriorated into mental illness faster than I ever saw with crack cocaine.”
Susan Partovi has been a physician for homeless people in Los Angeles since 2003. She noticed increasing mental illness—schizophrenia, bipolar disorder—at her clinics around the city starting in about 2012. She was soon astonished by “how many severely mentally ill people were out there,” Partovi told me. “Now almost everyone we see when we do homeless outreach on the streets is on meth. Meth may now be causing long-term psychosis, similar to schizophrenia, that lasts even after they’re not using anymore.”
Drugs that cause psychosis much faster than ever before? Yeah, you're right, nothing to see here.