Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
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[Previously in series: Antidepressant Pharmacogenomics: Much More Than You Wanted To Know; SSRIs: Much More Than You Wanted To Know, etc. This is all preliminary and you should not take it as a rea…

this btw is why we now see some of the TPOT rationalists microdosing street meth as a substitute. also that they’re idiots, of course.

somehow this man still has a medical license

  • saucerwizard@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Also I should point out claims around micro-dosing psychedelics are actually pretty sketch…and some of these people claim daily use of lsd - which is impossible (due to receptors getting flooded).

    • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      daily use is definitely possible! you’ll just get absolutely nothing out of it other than extremely minor but cumulative damage to your heart (which notably doesn’t happen when you’re not doing weird shit with your acid and you give it a fucking week or two off)

      • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        not really relevant, but: a quote from an interview with hard-living 60s rock band the Pretty Things:

        “…microdosing LSD [is] a practice May thinks may have been invented by a keyboard player who performed with the band in the 70s. “He used to have a little lick of acid every morning while standing on his head, doing his yoga exercises.” And did it help him psychologically, as latterday devotees of microdosing claim it can? “Well, no, not really,” sighs May. “He went pretty loony, to be honest.””

        Source: this article

    • acb@mastodon.social
      10·
      1 year ago

      In his book on psychedelics, David Nutt suggests that it is likely that the observed benefits of microdosing are just the placebo effect.