Comment on NOT SEEKING MEDICAL ADVICE. Doctors can prescribe a whole host of "downers" like xanax, methadone, the whole benzo family. Is there any uppers they can prescribe?

Tujio@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• StabbingSky@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, it’s not.

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  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Adderall is literally just four different types of amphetamines.

    There is an uncommonly-prescribed ADHD drug called Desoxyn that is literally just meth.

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    • StabbingSky@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Being an amphetamine doesn’t mean a drug is “basically meth”.

      Would you say DXM is basically Ketamine because both are dissociative drugs?

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      • impairedimperator@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Dxm and ketamine have similar effects on similar neurotransmitters, but not identical. Amphetamine and methamphetamine have identical effects on the same receptors, one just stick around longer.

        Analogy: dxm is taking a bus down the street, ketamine is taking truck down the street. Amphetamine is driving your car going 70, meth is driving your car going 85.

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    • DonPiano@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Amphetamines and methamphetamine are not the same. Different chemicals have different effects.

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      • impairedimperator@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        In this case they have the same effects, one is just stronger.

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• endless_nameless@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you’ve never taken either or seen anybody on either and know almost nothing about either, then sure, I guess you could say that.

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  • impairedimperator@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Having taken both and having worked a stint in pharmaceutical R+D, I can tell you they’re pretty much the same thing. One’s a bit stronger than the other.

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