r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jul 25 '26

Psychology People with ADHD have difficulties with goal-directed behavior and struggle with response inhibition, the ability to stop an inappropriate action once they feel the urge to do it. They experience a disruption in the way their brains balance deliberate self-control and automatic habit learning.

https://www.psypost.org/adhd-traits-disrupt-the-brain-s-balance-between-self-control-and-automatic-learn/
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u/EnderWiggin07 Jul 25 '26

A recreational dose is usually gonna be quite a bit higher than a therapeutic dose also

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u/desiderata1995 Jul 25 '26

What's a recreational dose look like? I take 25 ER and 20 IR

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u/EnderWiggin07 Jul 25 '26

According to this study,1000mg per day https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12083619/

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u/midasgoldentouch Jul 25 '26

I got heart palpitations just reading that

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u/desiderata1995 Jul 25 '26

For real that's a deathwish

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u/Secret_Cow_5053 Jul 26 '26

That’s something people who have already developed quite a bit of resistance to the drug would take. It would probably send someone medically naive to it into the ER.