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It's unfortunate the author was not able to manage the drug properly. Adderall is a potent substance that, when used in the correct fashion, can be an effective aid for those who need it. It's also highly addictive so must be combined with a healthy lifestyle and coupled to good habits in order to be kept in check. I would highly recommend that anyone who feels themselves falling into a routine similar to that described seek a therapist as well as focus hard on improving their sleep, diet, and exercise routine.

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It's unfortunate the author was not able to manage the drug properly. Adderall is a potent substance that, when used in the correct fashion, can be an effective aid for those who need it.

Uh, I would claim that drug reactions vary considerably from person. To claim Adderall is always bad for someone seems to be untrue but to attack someone for not being able to control their reaction to it or any given drug seems really problematic. You can't tell what ability person X has to control their reaction to substance Y, I'm not arguing this just based on the tautology that you aren't them but on the fairly well demonstrated point that human psycho-physiological reactions have been shown to have considerable variation.

It is a question of who or what is in-control and pretending there's a pat answer to this is evil.

Exactly.

The tone of the article made it seem like the Author was a victim here, when in reality I think this comment sums it up:

>The writer tells us she was "23" when all this happened, as if to say, "Really, I was just a kid." But, really, she wasn't a kid. The brain is quite mature at age 23, but she didn't explore, evidently, the possibility that she was making a mistake.

Denial is a principal aspect of drug addiction. Even if she quits using, it will likely take a long-time for her to fully accept that it was all her fault. Drug addicts will blame every single person but themselves.

Nobody older than thirty looks back and sees themselves as anything but a 'kid' at 23. Brain development or not.

To be honest I think most people consider the change that happens in the latter 20's/early 30's to be 'reaching adulthood'

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