Me too! I loved Adderall. A doc who prescribed it for me retired, and the others in my orbit are less pharmaceutically inclined. Modafinil, by comparison, is worthless. Unfortunately, I haven’t noticed any mood- or focus-enhancing effects from fairly high doses of SS-31.
Can you describe the difference between Adderall and Modafinil?
Modafinil supposedly promotes wakefulness, but unless you suffer from a sleep disorder such as narcolepsy, it probably won’t do much. At best, it’s a mild stimulant. When pulling all-nighters, which I still like to do even in my seventies, I find that it’s no better than caffeine.
Now, when the U.S. bombed Iran last year, the pilots were said to be popping Modafinil on their 36-hour, round-trip flight. I’m sure that this is true, but we don’t what dose they took, and we don’t know what other meds they were ingesting. My guess is that the military has a whole top-secret pharmacy at its disposal.
Adderall is far more powerful than Modafinil. Providing a huge hit of serotonin and dopamine, it intensifies concentration and elevates the mood. It is great for taking on either the most mundane or the most challenging of tasks. It is also an appetite suppressant, which can lead to its abuse. One drawback of Adderall is that, from my perspective, it raises body temperature, which means that it can lead to overheating.
Speaking of the military, amphetamines like Adderall were distributed to soldiers on both sides in WWII, Korea, and VietNam. This helped them to overcome physical exhaustion, battle fatigue, and even fear of dying. They had pills to psych them up and pills to bring them down. Who knows what they have available to them now.
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I’ve been kept up over 36 hours straight when I took 250mg of armodafinil. Never took it again after that.
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It does have a long half-life, but it works differently for you. I can go to sleep on it after 12 hours or so.