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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Then why are people getting this prescribed that don’t actually need it?

Are we going to take it away from people who legitimately need it because assholes can’t use it properly?[/quote]

Well, the answer the documentary touches on is that it's difficult to determine who "legitimately" needs it.  There's no definitive test for those disorders, and many of the symptoms/signs are things that everyone experiences to a lesser degree in ordinary life.

Many doctors approached the drug as "if you take it and you notice an improvement, then you need it."  But the documentary implies that everyone who takes it notices an improvement, but that doesn't mean everyone needs it.

And the documentary alludes to the reality that it may not be addictive in the same way heroin is, but it can cause a dependency.  That's the problem with what some PPs above have done -- taking it just to get a boost, even though you don't have a diagnosis.

[b]It would've been helpful if the documentary went into the long-term issues. [/b] The NFL guy alluded to downsides of taking it long term, as did his wife, but they didn't really go into that.  It's a shame because in some ways, the documentary could've been an advertisement for the drugs as it basically mainly emphasized all of the enhancements without even really detailing the potential long-term issues.  Seems like irresponsible documentary film-making to me.

That said, I'm glad I went to college before the use of this skyrocketed.  It sounds like it does create an unlevel playing field.[/quote]

They can't talk about the long-term issues because there haven't been any long-term studies done. As the documentary says, there were hardly even any SHORT term studies done.

They did say that these drugs are known to have the potential to cause death (cardiovascular issues) in addition to psychotic breaks even in patients without any history of such things.

I thought that was actually one of the points of the film - that so many people (especially parents) were choosing some known short-term effects over unknown long-term effects. And one of the other undertones was whether that's really a parent's right to choose, when at least some kids find that it changes their personality, makes them less "them", makes them have lower confidence overall since they know that any success is really attributed to the drug that they know also benefits other people too if they were to take it.
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