Gotta a friend who’s 52 and has all his teeth rot out 10 years ago. He goes to Wegmans every month and comes back with a pill bottle the size of a small trashcan. He says he could get nothing done without out but I don’t see him getting anything done. Wouldn’t be surprised if will fall and break his hip 20 years early.

I’ve seen plenty of those pills get diverted with outcomes like somebody stays up for 4 days and gets hospitalized so, yeah, I want to diss ADHD medication. It is clear it helps in the short term, not so clear if it helps in the long term.

> Gotta a friend who’s 52 and has all his teeth rot out 10 years ago.

FTR, meth mouth has no overlap with ADHD meds. I specifically looked into this, way back when.

> He goes to Wegmans every month and comes back with a pill bottle the size of a small trashcan.

If he took that many ADHD meds he'd be dead on day one. Three tabs/day is a heavy dose.

Even that very limited study didn't link stim use to poor teeth - at all. As far as study went, this was it.

    • Stimulant ADHD medication use in adults is associated with decreased bone
     mineral in the skull and thoracic spine.

    • No other areas of axial or appendicular skeleton showed significant
    differences.

    • There was no dose-response effect between stimulant medication use and
    bone mineral density.

    • The overall effect of stimulant medications on adult
    bone health is unclear. 

ref: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9062265/