>>12480595>Yes, you're cheating your future self out of the ability to focus without dopamine reuptake inhibitionAdderall is mostly a dopamine releaser, with only light reuptake inhibition properties
No drug is necessarily good or bad. Amphetamine is just a very serious, potent, brain-altering drug that should only be taken after thorough research, personal experimentation, and a general consideration for personal health (getting enough sleep, good diet, spacing apart usage and moderating the amount to mitigate tolerance, etc.)
My personal issue with all isomers of amphetamine is that even though it helps me focus, it almost always just gets me high as fuck. I've been prescribed 10mg per day for over a year but I have a weird brain that's sensitive to all stimulants so I still get euphorically high on it almost every single day, and I got bumped up to 15mg per day so it's even stronger now.
Even coffee makes me very euphoric, and triply so when mixed with amphetamine. So I just end up enjoying it too much to do things I was procrastinating and end up listening to/trying to make music and opening literally hundreds of porn tabs every day.
It's nice in a sense because I never have to chase the dragon, it always just flies over to me, but also not nice because my brain is now deeply hijacked and constantly craves it and craves to do dopaminergic activities while on it, kind of like the issue many people have with weed.
And the effects are way more intense when combined with weed, too, so now I'm hopelessly psychologically addicted to weed, amphetamine, and coffee, which probably isn't ideal. I can stop using the former two at any time and not mind much beyond feeling bored, so it's not a physiological dependence, but it's a definite psychological craving and certainly not healthy in the long run
So let that be a cautionary tale. Though it's not all bad because it also helps me genuinely be more productive, too, and makes me better at programming
