You often hear markers of sleep deprivation for an average human (hallucinations at 48-72 hours hypothetically).
If all else was held standard, how long (if at all) would cocaine/amphetamines keep someone peforming higher than their equally sleep deprived counterpart if the user was steady dosing hourly at a non lethal rate?
At what point would the body render the drug ineffective and force someone to sleep (on average)?
Is there a dropoff point where those using stimulants would perform poorer than their baseline? I would assume overall caloric intake and hydration would be lower, causing a bigger impact at some point. 1 day? 6 days?
Are there any studies on this?! Can’t sleep and my old college psychopharmacology has me thinking way too deep about a hypothetical 😂
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I can share a personal experience. No science though. I was once prescribed amphetamines for ADHD. I took them for 2 years and decided to quit. Dose was 15 mg per day after metabolism of the pro-drug. When I started it I didn’t sleep for 3 days, but kept redosing every morning. Keep in mind this is a slow release drug. On that third day I had full blown hallucinations and felt like utter ass. This was also the day that I managed to sleep, a good 7 hours too. After that I always managed to sleep fine and had no issues with the drug.
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