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Faster than Normal: Secrets of the ADHD Brain with Peter Shankman

The Dad Edge Podcast

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I Have ADHD and I'm 40 Years Old. Is This a Drug?

A lot of us turn to illegal drugs, like cocaine, the new ones, things like that. We're putting kids like five years old, putting them on a riddle in an Adderall. It's essentially amphetamines. And we're keeping them on there with no psychiatric behavior, no dialectical behavioral therapy, nothing to change the habits. As long as they're on drugs, they're fine. What happens when they turn 25? Now, the sudden they're back to where they were in their five. Their self-control is out the window. So what are they going to, of course, they're going to turn toillegal drugs, right? There was a

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