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Aug. 12th, 2018
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I’ve gotta shave but I feel kind of restless and I’m worried I would accidentally press too hard and nick my face. maybe later when I’m less whatever this feeling is.
I’ve gotta shave but I feel kind of restless and I’m worried I would accidentally press too hard and nick my face. maybe later when I’m less whatever this feeling is.
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huge shoutout to the food promotion worker giving out free samples for an event at my workplace for being very nice and sustaining my didn’t-eat-breakfast self with small snacks until I could take my lunch. direct aid
huge shoutout to the food promotion worker giving out free samples for an event at my workplace for being very nice and sustaining my didn’t-eat-breakfast self with small snacks until I could take my lunch. direct aid
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bananapeppers:
this is the most dumbass post. I don’t even know where to start! acting like the molecular comparison between amphetamine and methamphetamine isn’t apt is ridiculous! acting like the molecular similarities and difference between these two substances is comparable to the similarities and differences between the human genome and the banana genome for the purpose of an argument about drugs in humans is ridiculous! (also, again: what did the usage of a misogynistic slur here add to the post, besides misogyny?)
dan’s original tweet is overly reductive, but I want to criticize the familiar responses to it. these responses position the original reductionism as scientifically ignorant but attempt to fight this scientific ignorance with more of the same, and they rely on psychiatric diagnostic essentialism (itself pseudoscience).
underlying responses like these to parallels made between (a) some substances that are used medically for ADHD and (b) methamphetamine, and often underlying the comparison in the first place where these comparisons are often made sensationalistically, is a pervasive dehumanizing aversion to people who use methamphetamine illicitly. that needs to be addressed up front. if you believe that you have to distance yourself from people who (implicitly illicitly) use methamphetamine in order to defend your usage of an amphetamine-type or effectively similar and similarly scheduled CNS stimulant, there’s a problem with the basis of your defense.
people who use amphetamine as a treatment for an ADHD-typed condition and are on some high horse about not being like ~people on meth~ (where the suggestion is that this methamphetamine-usage is illicit) should know that methamphetamine is also prescribed for ADHD (and narcolepsy), for one. if your argument at all hinges on separating psychoactive substances with FDA or similar approval or else widespread medical practice of off-label prescription for some condition from psychoactive substances that aren’t approved by medicolegal authorities or prescribed by medical authorities, then you are shitting on your own argument by shitting on methamphetamine because methamphetamine is FDA-approved for ADHD (and prescribed off-label for narcolepsy). take a second to search for “methamphetamine” at Drugs@FDA, the FDA’s online database of FDA-approved drugs.
your usage of an amphetamine-type drug or an effectively similar and similarly scheduled CNS stimulant should not be something over which people dehumanize you, and the same is true for people who use methamphetamine illicitly.
I’m sick of people’s suggesting or claiming outright that amphetamine-type and effectively similar and similarly scheduled CNS stimulants (e.g., methylphenidate) cause essentially different effects (e.g. “not high” or “therapeutic effects” on one side, “high” on the other) not at different dosages, which would be a substantiable argument to make, but rather when used by people with particular diagnoses vs when used by people without those diagnoses. I don’t know how to tell people that this is bullshit! people are putting too much faith in psychiatric diagnostics, believing that psychiatric diagnostics accurately describe essential anatomical or physiological differences! every time someone who uses one of these substances to manage an ADHD-typed experience defends their own usage by contrasting the effects they feel from the substance they use against what they believe are the effects other people feel from any of these substances, I’m like: do you think that people who don’t have a diagnosis of ADHD (or narcolepsy) don’t feel the same effects at (at least approximately) the same/equivalent dosages of the same substances? ~“I feel more alert and more capable. my mood is improved. my visual world is sharper and more colorful.”~ yeah! that’s not because ~a drug has been correctly matched to a condition~; that’s because it’s a fucking CNS stimulant! for fuck’s sake!
people who use methamphetamine illictly are not essentially all that different from you, person who uses the same substance or a similar substance! think about how this diagnosis (and being able to access healthcare) is acting in this conversation as a wall separating ~respectable and reasonable~ people from ~unrespectable and unreasonable~ people!
I have used a scheduled CNS stimulant before, regularly, to help manage a condition for which that substance is ~appropriately~ prescribed, and the effects I felt were not exclusive to me/the population of people who share my narcolepsy diagnosis. the effects I felt were expectable in any person who uses the same substance. and I say “~appropriately~” because I want to drive home the point that medically educated and licensed people do not necessarily treat conditions and the people who embody those conditions appropriately! there are other factors besides utilization by/the word of a medical authority to consider in determining the actual appropriateness/inappropriateness of any healthcare intervention.
harmreduction.org
bananapeppers:
this is the most dumbass post. I don’t even know where to start! acting like the molecular comparison between amphetamine and methamphetamine isn’t apt is ridiculous! acting like the molecular similarities and difference between these two substances is comparable to the similarities and differences between the human genome and the banana genome for the purpose of an argument about drugs in humans is ridiculous! (also, again: what did the usage of a misogynistic slur here add to the post, besides misogyny?)
dan’s original tweet is overly reductive, but I want to criticize the familiar responses to it. these responses position the original reductionism as scientifically ignorant but attempt to fight this scientific ignorance with more of the same, and they rely on psychiatric diagnostic essentialism (itself pseudoscience).
underlying responses like these to parallels made between (a) some substances that are used medically for ADHD and (b) methamphetamine, and often underlying the comparison in the first place where these comparisons are often made sensationalistically, is a pervasive dehumanizing aversion to people who use methamphetamine illicitly. that needs to be addressed up front. if you believe that you have to distance yourself from people who (implicitly illicitly) use methamphetamine in order to defend your usage of an amphetamine-type or effectively similar and similarly scheduled CNS stimulant, there’s a problem with the basis of your defense.
people who use amphetamine as a treatment for an ADHD-typed condition and are on some high horse about not being like ~people on meth~ (where the suggestion is that this methamphetamine-usage is illicit) should know that methamphetamine is also prescribed for ADHD (and narcolepsy), for one. if your argument at all hinges on separating psychoactive substances with FDA or similar approval or else widespread medical practice of off-label prescription for some condition from psychoactive substances that aren’t approved by medicolegal authorities or prescribed by medical authorities, then you are shitting on your own argument by shitting on methamphetamine because methamphetamine is FDA-approved for ADHD (and prescribed off-label for narcolepsy). take a second to search for “methamphetamine” at Drugs@FDA, the FDA’s online database of FDA-approved drugs.
your usage of an amphetamine-type drug or an effectively similar and similarly scheduled CNS stimulant should not be something over which people dehumanize you, and the same is true for people who use methamphetamine illicitly.
I’m sick of people’s suggesting or claiming outright that amphetamine-type and effectively similar and similarly scheduled CNS stimulants (e.g., methylphenidate) cause essentially different effects (e.g. “not high” or “therapeutic effects” on one side, “high” on the other) not at different dosages, which would be a substantiable argument to make, but rather when used by people with particular diagnoses vs when used by people without those diagnoses. I don’t know how to tell people that this is bullshit! people are putting too much faith in psychiatric diagnostics, believing that psychiatric diagnostics accurately describe essential anatomical or physiological differences! every time someone who uses one of these substances to manage an ADHD-typed experience defends their own usage by contrasting the effects they feel from the substance they use against what they believe are the effects other people feel from any of these substances, I’m like: do you think that people who don’t have a diagnosis of ADHD (or narcolepsy) don’t feel the same effects at (at least approximately) the same/equivalent dosages of the same substances? ~“I feel more alert and more capable. my mood is improved. my visual world is sharper and more colorful.”~ yeah! that’s not because ~a drug has been correctly matched to a condition~; that’s because it’s a fucking CNS stimulant! for fuck’s sake!
people who use methamphetamine illictly are not essentially all that different from you, person who uses the same substance or a similar substance! think about how this diagnosis (and being able to access healthcare) is acting in this conversation as a wall separating ~respectable and reasonable~ people from ~unrespectable and unreasonable~ people!
I have used a scheduled CNS stimulant before, regularly, to help manage a condition for which that substance is ~appropriately~ prescribed, and the effects I felt were not exclusive to me/the population of people who share my narcolepsy diagnosis. the effects I felt were expectable in any person who uses the same substance. and I say “~appropriately~” because I want to drive home the point that medically educated and licensed people do not necessarily treat conditions and the people who embody those conditions appropriately! there are other factors besides utilization by/the word of a medical authority to consider in determining the actual appropriateness/inappropriateness of any healthcare intervention.
harmreduction.org
Aug. 12th, 2018 06:50 am
many people believe in the “paradoxical
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many people believe in the “paradoxical effect” of CNS stimulants in individuals who “have ADHD” but it is a myth.
many people believe in the “paradoxical effect” of CNS stimulants in individuals who “have ADHD” but it is a myth.
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something I’ve been grappling with since getting methylphenidate is like… what is legitimate use. and what I keep circling around is “fuck the concept of legitimate use.”
something I’ve been grappling with since getting methylphenidate is like… what is legitimate use. and what I keep circling around is “fuck the concept of legitimate use.”
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hailmaryfullofgrace55675:
something I’ve been grappling with since getting methylphenidate is like… what is legitimate use. and what I keep circling around is “fuck the concept of legitimate use.”
is it legitimate because I feel better? because i get more done? because it was prescribed by a doctor? fuck it, dude, absolutely fuck it. nonsense category who gives a shit. it’s not legitimate it just is what it is.
hailmaryfullofgrace55675:
something I’ve been grappling with since getting methylphenidate is like… what is legitimate use. and what I keep circling around is “fuck the concept of legitimate use.”
is it legitimate because I feel better? because i get more done? because it was prescribed by a doctor? fuck it, dude, absolutely fuck it. nonsense category who gives a shit. it’s not legitimate it just is what it is.
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