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> it's treated as a long term issue that can only be addressed with drug use. But that's what it is? Drugs aren't the only treatment, but they are by far the most effective.
They are effective at first, and then you become tolerant and either need to increase your dosage for the same effect, or take a break (which can be difficult to suffer through because now you're operating at less than baseline functioning until homeostasis kicks in, which can take a week or longer). And e.g. Adderall was only released in 1996, so there hasn't been much time to study the long-term effects. This happe…
That hasn't been the case for me, and I've been taking the medications for a while now. I don't drink coffee or any kind of caffeine so I can't compare, but while the effect of the medication did reduce slightly after a while, I certainly haven't become noticed tolerance to the extent that the medication doesn't work any more. On the contrary I'm significantly better off since I started taking them. Perhaps some are more susceptible to developing a tolerance?