@alex @feld @NonPlayableClown

>> Okay. So by your own admission it does not affect the brain different, it's just that a different quantity has a stronger or weaker effect person to person. This is a fact that is intrinsic and obvious that everybody already knew to be true about almost all drugs.

I do agree yes, depending on the person it is highly variable. However it is fundamentally a broken reward system. That means to achieve the same level of reward as the normal baseline human we need far more stimulation. That means bigger risks that translate to more reward. It is what leads to a dearth of bad behavior that you see among the ADHD population. To get that response without thinking things through people will engage in high risk sex, sports, financial games whatever.

I think that is the core that we need to address is how to identify and help the individuals cope with such problems in childhood instead of just labeling them problems.