I am currently being told they’re completely different, even though they’re both amphetamines with a similar side effect profile and potential for abuse. So whats the difference?
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Lots of chemicals have relationships like this.
A glass of 10% ethanol – 2 carbons and a hydroxide (OH) – will at best make you slightly intoxicated, that’s a strong beer or weak wine.
Cut off one of those carbons and you have methanol, now that glass will render you hospitalized and permanently blind at best, more likely dead.
Despite being structurally similar, there are plenty of differences between an Adderall pill and a typical meth dose. First, you take more meth, typically from 100mg (twice my daily Ritalin intake) up to 500mg for impure stuff/high tolerance.
Second, an Adderall pill isn’t pure, not even close. They’re mostly fillers, stuff to pad it out and slow the absorption so you don’t get so much of a rush and short peak, it’s absorbed over maybe half an hour into the bloodstream then starts working. But you don’t have the delay with meth, you either snort it where its rapidly absorbed almost right away, smoke it where it’s absorbed into the lungs then pumped basically right to your brain, or inject it directly to the blood.
There’s no build up, just an instant rush.
Much like the difference between smoking a joint and eating brownies, one takes way longer.
I’m sure if you had access to pure, crystalline versions of the amphetamines in Adderall, and you smoked/snorted it, you’d be pretty well messed up but medicine is all about taking powerful chemicals and packaging them in ways that allow your body to use them.
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