In the past couple of years, we have entered a new age of ADHD awareness. The stereotypical image of a ratbag, hyperactive little boy is falling away and slowly medical professionals, policymakers and regular people are coming to view the diagnosis as a serious, often lifelong and life-altering condition, affecting a huge number of people

I'll read through it later. Let me comment at the outset that ADHD had long ago migrated to a lifelong disorder.  And we humans create ready identities out of any condition.

The most interesting thing about a well researched longform article on the Adderall shortage, posted last year in the Guardian or Atlantic maybe, I'll repost, was that psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry consider adderall and its associated formulations as the most succesful psychiatric drug ever in the history of drugs.  Works well, relatively non toxic, stabilizes mood and people can stay on it for their whole lives.

This far excedes the performance and efficacy of all other known psychiatric drugs. And I would say after observing friends take it for decades by adjusting their dosage, Bingo time for western medicine! Plus no one has to risk being demonized like the Sacklers.

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