I don't know if anyone else had the same experience, but SWIM was able to quit METH through the use of L-Tyrosine.
SWIM went from weed-ecstacy-cocaine-meth in the span of 3 years. But SWIM was a meth addict for 10 months. SWIM's first 3 months was almost weekly(oral/snorting), until SWIM learned to smoke it, and did it almost every other day until SWIM realized he's been addicted for 10 months. SWIM started using it for exams, projects and papers, until SWIM "needed" it for tiny tests, homeworks, basic studying, and later on SWIM just needed it in general (to get up in the morning). SWIM's brain was f*cked. SWIM wasnt productive anymore like he was at the beginning. Meth was on SWIM's mind EVERY SINGLE DAY. So that was SWIM's addiction. SWIM is very young mind you(19 years old now).
NOTE: Swim had depression even before he started doing drugs.
SWIM is now 3 months sober, and three months feels like three years if you are an addict. SWIM feels like meth is way far behind him, not even looking back. SWIM still remembers how SWIM felt as an addict and couldn't even empathize anymore (like, "ew that was me?"). SWIM may sound overconfident but SWIM can tell you that he looks at meth with disgust now. SWIM isnt "fighting" to stay sober, SWIM is actually embracing and loving soberiety.
One day SWIM discovered L-Tyrosine, at first SWIM used it to try to boost my meth high and learned to use it for comedowns. All of a sudden, SWIM's addiction weakened, and with a little bit(literally not even a lot) of willpower, SWIM was able to quit it all together. NO CRAVING, no nothing. SWIM felt weird shifting from an addict to suddenly not even wanting to do meth anymore. SWIM didn't even have to go through withdrawal or anything.
SWIM takes 1500mg of L-tyrosine(its SWIM's tested perfect dose for SWIM) daily first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. This is because if their are any other amino acids in your blood, it can bond with them and not be able to cross the so called "blood brain barrier" and become dopamine(do your own research on that). But with all that dopamine produced, u need something to RELEASE it (in my experience), so SWIM started drinking coffee and tea, SWIM also still smokes cigarettes. Tyrosine makes SWIM feel content (happy) like meth does (on a lower scale of course), but without the palpitations and vasoconstriction and dehydration that meth gives SWIM. Basically, for SWIM, tyrosine is kinda like meth that doesn't destroy your body. It keeps your dopamine receptors at bay SWIM guesses (to keep you from looking for drugs).
Tyrosine gives SWIM the will to do other things besides drugs, like to socialize, study, read, meditate, work out, and do other recreational activities. When SWIM was doing meth, the only thing on SWIM's mind was trying to physically survive (eat, sleep, manage finances, do meth). SWIM was in a horrible place and didn't even feel it because of meth's euphoria. Only when SWIM was sober did he realize where he was, and that meth was gonna bring SWIM down very soon (was losing money, failing subjects, losing friends). Im a student in one of the top universities in my country, so I had A LOT to lose.
After 2-3 weeks sober, SWIM knew he had to start doing normal people sh*t, or else SWIM would have no ladder to climb and could potentially look back to drugs. So SWIM started forcing himself to talk to people and make new friends(not easy as a former meth addict). SWIM was having severe social anxiety and was noticeably awkward around people. But SWIM had the will to improve his life and kept trying despite the difficulty. Now SWIM feels like he is on the right path again. Body is back to recovering, so as his social life, finances, and interest in this world.
Not sure if SWIM is sober, or just shifted his addiction to L-tyrosine.
STRESS IS NORMAL, it keeps you doing what you have to do. Living without stress takes away the excitement in life. Normal people feel depressed, anxious, and stressed, not just you. You must embrace these negative emotions the same way you embrace positive ones. Every time you feel stressed, just think, at least im not doing meth anymore. When bad sh*t happens in life, you have to take it. When you fail, go get sad! You can't be happy all the time, thats ignorance. When you feel like sh*t because your'e not on drugs, shift it to feeling like shit because of life problems. Don't fix it with drugs, just FIX IT.
TLDR' SWIM was addicted to meth for 10 months and L-tyrosine became his alternative. Technically, SWIM is sober. AND SO CAN YOU!
I don't feel good about giving stims to kids or being overly laze fare with prescribing young, still developing children, but I'm also very unhappy with the state of public education where I live in the states. I think you arguments work better for college age kids tbh, but I'm also no doctor. And some kids undeniably need meds to have fulfilling lives. It all just makes me very uncomfortable given my own experiences being medicated as a child.