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I got the sarcasm, but this particular point is – as you've demonstrated very clearly in your response – the actual message you're trying to push.
You're using "highly addictive" to insinuate that this is just a ludicrous and fundamentally flawed practice. No concern towards all of those who do have ADHD who report that medication has helped them live a life otherwise inaccessible to them. It's highly stigmatizing framing and just because you have a valid point about opioids does not mean you get to dismiss genuine mental health struggles as having fallen prey to a marketing scheme.
Amphetamines are highly addicti|e. Just like opioids. Chronic pain sufferers are as stigmatized. They're treated like potential criminals by the very doctors who treat them. Are you as willing to defend the pharma industry for that? Or imply that it's some sort of right-wing hoax?
And, yeah, I'm straight up saying that there's an equivalency there. That pharma pushes doctors to over-prescribe for profit. And that there's also an epidemic of amphetamine use and abuse, specifically of ADHD medications. It's simply not the hip thing for Americans to be outraged about; amphetamines are so last century. Fentanyl is the new drug king. But they all start with prescription drugs, and over-prescribing.
The mental health crisis is because people with problems do not get the support or help they need; it's not because we're not prescribing enough drugs. Not everyone who has a headache needs Vicodin; not everyone with childhood trauma needs Prozac.