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?

• 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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    • StabbingSky@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They don’t have identical effects, otherwise one wouldn’t work better for an individual than others.

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      • impairedimperator@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Correct. Much like there is a difference between driving 70 and 85.

        Some people, going 70 just doesn’t cut it.

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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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