Comments by "The Ride Never ends" (@therideneverends1697) on "Into the Shadows" channel.

  1. as someone who pretty regularly takes prescribed amphetamine tablets i absolutely understand your sentiment however while it may help some people, the long term efficacy of benzos really is questionable, particularly on account of the rebound effects and the frankly unprecedented increase in risk for degenerative illnesses. im not saying in the meantime it shouldent be giveing them to people like yourself but there really should be more of a search for a replacement
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  2. Ill be frank, id get up and go straight to the illegal market without a second thought. Its not a matter of addiction its a matter of having a semblance of quality of life. if my mind is running faster than i can keep up with it im not going back to sitting in bed all day paralyzed because i cant catch up to it, im going to take something to speed myself up to catch up with my own thoughts, i do it legally, have since i got help and plan to always do so, but if that option was taken away it wouldent be a matter of if it would be a matter of how
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  3.  @andrewwilkins3014  The problem is your an addict, viewing these things from the perspective of someone who engaged in out of control drug use for no particular reason. We get perscribed these things Because we are not functional to start with the drug is used to treat a condition. if anything its common for people with ADHD to need less or use it less frequently as time goes on, but at the baseline we get those tablets because its been observed that without them we cannot consistently function. Saying "sounds like addict behavior" is in this context, like accusing a diabetic of being a junkie because they need to inject insulin. I did not have access to stimulants until i was 24, at no point ever prior to that was i anything that could be described as stable or functional, being able to use those to get to where i need to be on time is their purpose. If you removed them from the situation then i would rapidly stop showing up to work, school or vital appointments not because some kind of devious addiction, but because thats simply how i am. It would just be a return to my natural resting state.
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  4.  @Elyfairy  Claritin D is not methamphetamine, neither is sudafed or benzadrex, they are similar shaped molecules but are no where near as psychoactive,
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  5.  @DanHammonds  None of those things make ADHD go away, i read and journal incessantly and have since i was able to pick up a pencil.
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  6.  @UserName-ln5ol  Ok and? why should it have to be a painful experience.
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  7.  @andrewwilkins3014  its not "finding sollice" its treating the condition. Moreover frankly i couldent care less what drugs people use to improve their lives, aslong as its adding to their life and not subtracting i see no moral problem
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  8. Been there done that in a much better place now. My advice, start right now, dont wait to finish what you have left around the house or do a "ill do next week" Start today, and dont keep a timer on how many days its been or whatever, Every day your goal is to not drink, and if you do than your goal is to make sure a couple beers doesent turn into a case. Focus on each day and each week improving from before
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  9. Exactly, we absolutely should not ban it, but lets not pretend it is not, well, exactly what it is. Its a drug, a drug that can be used responsibly by adults. But it needs to be treated approprately
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  10. I had a lung lining inflammation out of nowhere that made breathing an agonizing experience, told them i had been taking prescription level doses of ibuprofen and it was doing nothing, got told to take Tylenol with it. Im overwhelmingly glad i had leftover oxycodone from getting my wisdom teeth removed because that shit was horrific
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  11. the shortage is not from a literally a lack of materials, its that the FDA only allows X quanitys to be produced per year and refuses to raise it in a timely manner. If the production restrictions went away the supply problems would be gone in a month
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  12. 97% of people who take opioids as prescribed develop no addiction or dependence
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  13. To put in a bit of perspective, i WAS raised correctly in regard to socio emotional stuff, and despite my best efforts to do the right thing, whatever part of my brain needed to start developing inorder to fully understand that stuff did not start kicking in until recently at like 23, So theres a neurological development bit in there on the inverse side of the social one you mentioned aswell. Despite having all the required ques and reinforcers i just couldent "get it", and frankly my behavior before the fact was embarrassing at best, totally unhinged at worst. heck i dont even know if i would get it now if the impulsive side of me that was running the show at the time had not gone and obtained stimulant medications and utilized them at a more than recommended amount, something flipped on like a light switch and has stayed on since where it now feels i have enough perception and control of myself to understand the world around me. Interestingly enough also shut off the compulsion to do that type of thing. Before even with the right information and very much wanting and trying to do the right thing and be considerate because thats who i feel i am and want to be as a person, there was just a missing piece i dident have that prevented good judgement despite the best of intent, and apparently my dad dident really "get it" until his early to mid 30s, so there is definitely like you said both a nature and nurture aspect, as clearly something that runs in my familly slows that part of development down substantially while the rest zooms ahead. Should i have kids though im getting them those medications as soon as possible, id imagine at a more moderate level early on and carried on that development could happen more naturally without the confused development followed by abrupt clarity
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  14.  @IndigoRichard  I mean it can help them focus some, just to a lesser extent because they are not coming from a deficit. Amphetamines dont make you smarter, accumulateing information through reading, school and research do, amphetamines however make those things much easier. so you get what you put into it. I have Severe inattentive ADHD, the drugs dont fix anything on their own, i have to put into it, use my management stratagies and continually redirect myself to get the desired outcome, otherwise im the same scattered person as before BUT NOW ENERGIZED. Also this idea that people with ADHD cant get high off it is BS not backed by any scientific literature, when i was figureing out my correct dose along the way i went to high, and i was absolutely wired no question about it. Felt great! but got absolutely nothing done, so i backed it off and now have great success. The fact that i, as someone with severe ADHD, a condition marked by poor impulse control, was able to do that without a hint of trouble shows that the addictiveness of these drugs is far overstated Molecules only do what they do, its the human ingesting them that dictates if its done responsibly or irresponsiblely
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  15.  @BollocksToThat  eh, its not as bad as alcohol in many ways but its not entirely free of risk
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  16.  @AgxntAqua  This, while i did absolutely used to drink far to much, it was in the form of sipping drinks over the course of the day and a beer or two with meals. As a result i was able to knock it off without any physical withdrawls or health issues, and can have something here and there without going nuts, getting drunk was never something ive enjoyed so the compulsion to get blasted just is not there, it was a matter simply of readjusting habits My sister took less after how she was raised and instead is huge into binge drinking, will down a bottle in an hour or two and currently has an attention span and long term memory that i could only imagine resembles someone who collects concussions for fun at the ripe age of 22
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  17. As someone with ADHD i say the solution is let the people without ADHD get them through a DR too, schedule stimulants IV instead of II If we, people with a disorder thats often defined by a lack of self control can handle the responsibility of picking up 2 grams of AMP a month from a DR and not go off the rails than surely people without can handle that just as well
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  18.  @AgxntAqua  not saying much, 40% or so of people with ADHD end up checking themselves out of the life hotel intentionally or through substance abuse, thats a coin flips chance, not exactly a mild disorder
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  19.  @DanHammonds  No loss of creativity in my experience at all, Stimulants dont make your thoughts less chaotic, they speed your thinking enough where you can keep up with them. I find they if anything enhance creativity particularly song writeing because you can take those little lines of music in your mind and lay them all out on the mental "Table" so to speak and start putting them together which also makes writeing transitional sections much easier. Normally if im trying to write the bridge or fill in between verse and chorus sections i find it challenging to clearly think about the sections im trying to fit together simultaneously, with it it becomes totally easy to keep both thoughts in mind at the same time and write something between them. Also makes writeing and painting a very engaged experience, normally my writeing is very much a flight of ideas, stimulants let me take that huge pile of ideas and finish them out fully. Done properly at the proper doseage at the proper intervals i have found it does nothing but add to the creative experience
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  20. the good news is the mechanisms that set off nuclear bombs are very fragile and require annual replacement of components every 10 years. while its scary a radiation source is orphaned out there somewhere theres no way the mechanism to cause a bomb to go off is still intact
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  21. I think the simple rule of "If you have to question if your over doing it, then you likely are" is really the best start. no reason to let a mild alcohol use disorder turn into full alcoholism
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  22.  @SFiz-b3f  Exactly my point. SOME people do get unlucky and get hooked on them. A vast majority of people perscribed them do not. While we OBVIOUSLY, should not be handing out 200 tablet pharmacy bottles of the stuff, theres no reason someone shouldent be given 6 or so tablets for an injury thats severe enough Tylenols not doing it
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  23. Counter point, Im exactly me when i take them, just the me i know i should be in my head instead of the me crippled by disability. Not discrediting your experience, but some people like myself really do have great outcomes
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  24. The thing is most adderall you dont get from a pharmacy is not actually adderall, its meth pressed into counterfit tablets. a san diego based organization took samples and found 80-85% of tablets sold as "adderall" where just methamphetamine or methamphetamine and caffeine
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  25.  @davidhiles2673  Exactly, if I, a dude with ADHD can have huge life improvements from consumeing stimulants, than whos to say others cant have similar improvements?
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  26. Im starting from the perspective of being all for it, if you found something that works for you thats awsome. but why bother changing out tablets for pills if they are both doing the same thing in the brain, pain relief is due to the same mechanism. What in your experience has been the benifit?
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  27.  @Loralanthalas  could just have been ODD, i had that as a kid, its a very strange compulsion when your aware of it, bordering on body horror to some extent, your brain glitches out so you get more mental motivation or reward from doing what your not supposed to than what you are, even if you know and want to do thing right thing. To the point it feels like your fighting with your body while it doesnt listen to instructions. I distinctly remember a few incidents where i was haveing a total breakdown telling teachers to just stop talking to me for so i could do the right thing because i could if they dident tell me too, but if i did the options where put the body on shutdown and just freeze, or do the wrong thing. Unfortunately at the time i did not know how to fully explain what was happening and the teachers did not know how to identify it. Thankfully it does fade with age in most cases, and even further if you work to address it but at the core level theres something neurological about it that still peeks out from time to time though to a degree i can resist it. Where it feels like whatever part of the brain is responsible for motivation just pulls an uno reverse
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  28.  @oxfordcommaisthegreatest  Not just have i looked into it im diagnosed witb it lol. Thats exactly what it is, body seeks stimulation, finds the easiest way to get it, and unfortunately its easier to knock things down than build them up
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  29. From what we have gathered from survay data, about 3-5% of people whove used an opiate developed a use disorder 2%or so for stimulants and a whopping 11-15% of people who drink develop an AUD. cannabis was something like 8% which carries over into a theory i have I think a combination of its availability and its ability to make you simply feel fine very quickly makes the problem, Opioids may motivate you to do something if youve been in chronic pain, stimmulants by their very nature compel people to do things, but alcohol and to a lesser extent weed run into the issue of making boredom satiating, someone can smoke a joint or down a couple of beers and feel totally content not careing about anything. Make it easy to fall into a cycle of downing the stuff at the slightest discomfort and hindering progress twords goals
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  30.  @LadyBeyondTheWall  tramadol
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  31.  @robertdubard7959  was banned for recreational use in 1909, was made prescription only in 1914
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  32.  @montgomeryrichard  exactly, most of of the ordanance is not fused, but the stuff that is is not stable and can set off everything else
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  33. Thats the same effect it has on someone with ADHD, it helps you focus, but if you have severe ADHD you still have to make an effort to redirect yourself when you get off track, it just gives you the energy to do it (which is normally exhuasting and can easilly burn you out in less than an hour) The tunnel vision effect wears off after youve gotten used to the drug unless your shooting way high on dosage
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  34.  @christopherleubner6633  its a bit more complicated than that and actually meth is prescribed aswell though much less often, What really makes the diffrence is meth has lower side effects and requires lower doses for the same effect, allowing people who have naturally high tollerences or are prone to side effects to get treatment. neither meth or amphetamine are evil drugs, and they are used medically for good reason, but like anything the dose makes the poison. the problem with meth is that because it has so few side effects at even higher dosages compared to amphetamine it allows people who are abuseing it to consume far far larger amounts. While someone would struggle to consume 200MG of amphetamine in a day without becoming very sick, someone could very well consume 500MG of meth thats around 3x as strong per MG and get away with as little than sweatyness and jitters. the problem with meth is not that when dosed equivalently it does something particularly unique, but the fact it can be megadosed in ways that would give an amphetamine user a day long panic attack
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  35.  @Murph9000  ahhh a classic video
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  36.  @jessedesens5845  Well your opinion is wrong. I put off these things for longer than i should have because stubbornness and stigma, convinced i could do it myself if i just tried hard enough ect. Well that never worked, and it was never going to. a 20 MG amphetamine tablet and im no longer fighting my body to do what im telling it to do, it listens. If you have not experenced it you frankly will never be capable of commenting on what one who is "needs" or doesent. You try sitting in a body that wont follow your instructions, youll feel trapped pretty quickly, and i promise whatever fix you think you have wont work, because chances are i tried it
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  37. Depends which ones, the ship has naval shells which are manufactured as such they are entirely sealed off as the gunpowder charge is seperate from the projectile, while i dont know the composition of the impact primers on those particular shells its possible those could become unstable and the powder being in a sealed capsule, would be entirely ready to go
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  38. There are tones of high functioning meth addicts that hold good jobs down, thats literally what meth does, makes you do everything but faster, better and more precisely. The reason the stereotype exists because people who smoke the stuff and drive themselves nuts chasing a high and not sleeping for weeks. The reality is you walk past high functioning meth users all the time, people who just stir a bit in with their coffee and are out the door
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  39. Thats alcohol in general, but thats the thing, its not additives that make alcohol bad for you, its alcohol
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  40. it would be safer to not pump out the water if you where doing that
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  41.  @cantsay2205  No, likely not, but that does not mean the next default should be to jail
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  42.  @lawnmoaner  Not all humans, some, which is what makes sobriaty an accomplishment, Ive been prescribe opiates, for me that spark whatever it is just is not there, theres no opiate out there that im going to compulsively seek because the feeling of sedation is innately unpleasant to me. but for some people (Insert drug here) is a warm hug they cant pull away from. Most people who have used opiates in a medical context come out with no ill effect, they take them to deal with pain after something severe, they heal and its done and done. the problem is that 1-3% that get a sensation out of it that most either dont get, or is a sensation that for most people is not particularly remarkable but for some reason they do. These things need to be handled with empathy and compassion because at the heart of the situation, no one wakes up in the morning and thinks "Man i want to be an addict", theres something there, a combination of emotions and sensations, that give them that compulsion and thats really not their fault
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  43.  @comettamer  Thats the bit people dont realize, haveing talked to opioid users and haveing used them myself on perscription for management of post surgy pain, the people who get addicted to the stuff have something going on, be it physiological or emotional, that gives them some spark out of them that most people dont get. My experience with them was simply feeling nauseous, sedated apathetic, and a general feeling of unease, when ive talked to people who had or have a problem with them they describe feeling comforted confident, motivated, at ease, and even energized. While willpower is a factor it can only go so far, theres a chemical element involved
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  44. My excessive drinking absolutely made me a better person by the end of it, one, it gave me more empathy twords other peoples problems because i had the first hand example of how stuff can easilly get out of hand. But most importantly that moment of clarity where i was sitting there and had the "wait, this is not normal, like at all, huh, why am i doing that, thought and it got me to finally backtrack and the "Why" behind alot of my behaviors besides the overdrinking. That being said i would never advertize that as a method for other people to solve those problems, probably could have solved it much quicker and healthier with therapy BUT, it worked out right eventually
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  45.  @SOBNo1  or makes it substantially worse, depending on the person, for me drinking while upset is a coinflip between a sense of optimism that perks me up enough to address the problem, or into a spiraling depression that can quickly get out of hand in new and exciteing ways, aaannnnd thats why i finally follwed my DRs advice and switched to adderall lol
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  46. Nah dude mushrooms get people in screwy headspaces and turn people into narcissists
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  47.  @DracDotExe  Dont sudafed tablets now have additives in them that prevent that from working?
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  48.  @kstreet7438  If your not doing anything wrong then theres no reason you should carry the guilt for others actions. Like almost every drug from cocaine to fentanyl to meth these substances where all designed with a medical use, often very narrow ones but within those uses they are just as legitimate as penicillin for an infection Meths limited to treatment resistant narcolepsy and treatment of people with severe ADHD who have unnaturally high tolerances to stimulants or experience adverse effects from other meds, only 2-4 thousand people in the US have that prescription in a given year, ive never heard them blamed for shed operations blowing up trailer parks cocaine is used in only 2 or 3 nasal/optical/sinus procedures because how small an amount is needed for numbing in areas where theres physically not enough space in the body for adequate dosages of other topical anesthetics. So as a result every year a small, but more than youd think, amount is manufactured legally for that use, no one getting a sinus issue rectified is blamed for the Colombian drug trade Fentanyl is for most uses, unnecessary of even suboptimal due to narrow theraputic index and short half life, but you know what no one complains about? Epidurals during child birth, where its short duration and rapid uptake is ideal, or in your instance where the highly lipophilic nature of that particular molecule allows it to get to pain receptors often missed by other opioids. I think it would be equally absurd as any other example here. almost all of these drugs became problems in society because layers of complex social factors, and none of these issues take away from the legitimate medical uses these otherwise potentially dangerous substances have.
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  49. See thats a similar outlook i have with ADHD meds, doctors will say i should just take them all day every day but i prefer to use them as i need to when im not pulling things off otherwise.
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  50. I really do not understand why someone would use this instead of speed seems like a nightmare
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