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Microdosing and ADHD
by Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
The high pressure startup culture of the Bay Area leads many participants to view their bodies and brains as machines to be optimised using all of the tools available, meditation, yoga, Soylent, intermittent fasting, so-called smart drugs (including off-label ADHD and narcolepsy meds), microdosed psychedelics and legal nootropics.
The trend for using smart drugs can be traced back to schools, where Ritalin and Adderall prescriptions are rife, explains Anjan Chatterjee, a professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. Children even at preschool age find themselves in competitive environments with dense schedules of study, tutoring, music lessons and sport.
Those who aren't already prescribed ADHD medication can buy it easily; a series of surveys suggest that around 20 per cent of US college students have abused prescription stimulants. It's something that Lily, who has been prescribed ADHD medication since she was six, can relate to. At University, she would share her prescription with friends seeking help focusing on assignments, something that she continued when she entered the working world. "It's what fuels not just the tech community but any millennial trying to work really hard and make it," she says.
At the start of her career working in a tech startup, she found Adderall useful. "It helped me launch a company. We went from three cities to over 30 in six months. I felt like a rockstar but I was being silly," she says. Lily started to research microdosing psychedelics after experiencing unpleasant side effects from the amphetamine-based drug. "My heart would be racing when I took it, and when I didn't, I would experience withdrawal and feel really dumb, like my brain was slowing down."
Even though magic mushrooms and LSD are illegal in many countries, Lily views them as safer than her legal meds. Not only are the doses small and infrequent, she has found no evidence that psychedelics are physically addictive. "I don't think we are going to find out that microdosing damages your liver," she says.
Lily still takes her ADHD medication, but microdosing magic mushrooms has allowed her to substantially reduce her dose. "In a perfect world I don't want to take Adderall at all," she says.
Increasing Number Of Americans Are "Microdosing" On Psychedelics To Enhance Mental Performance | ZeroHedge
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