amphetamines

No matter how you look at it, Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta and similar drugs are amphetamines or amphetamine analogues.

It's more clear with drugs that create physical dependence, like opioids or dopamine reuptake inhibitors (cocaine, amphetamines).

It's almost as though taking amphetamines doesn't make you as smart, productive, and famous as Paul Erdős.

Perhaps a bigger warning sign is when / if a founder like that ends up using and abusing amphetamines.

Or you do believe in it and want to justify why giving amphetamines to children is a good thing.

At first, they were legal and reputable dealers sold them to club kids used to using meth and other amphetamines.

It also has the benefit of increasing dopamine and it's a much lower impact focus drug than psychostimulants like amphetamines.

After routine testing it is discovered that 40% of drivers usually use amphetamines with an addition 20% saying they have tried it.

I've given two examples of how amphetamines may be used profitably in the longterm (which increases productivity).

Many contemporary college students can definitely attest to both the positive and negative aspects for drugs such as amphetamines (e.g., Adderall) in a manner that one could describe (though misleadingly) as superhuman.

So it's common for drivers to take amphetamines to stay awake.

It's an emotional topic because it involves giving amphetamines to children.

(This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős himself.)[6] After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[7] Erdős won the bet, but complained during his abstinence that mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas.

Amphetamines allow for short term gains in productivity for individuals and possibly companies.

Amphetamines, antidepressants, and some narcotic painkillers for example.