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Nov 2023
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Why'd I take speed for twenty years? (Pa...

PJ Vogt
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In part two of our story about ADHD medications, we approach the question from a different angle.

We meet a doctor who spent two decades convinced that her brain does not work correctly, and who struggled to find someone who believed her.

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