@glyph I know that this is a tangent to your original point about LLMs (100% agreed), but fucking yikes, this is terrifying. It's a very good video, and makes me glad that I never seriously considered self-medicating my (at the time hypothetical) ADHD. Of course everyone thinks they can't get addicted, because they're smarter than those other addicts, and they have *rules*. There but for the grace, etc.. I even have the exact same kind of food safe, to use for snacks.
What is frustrating is that the (extreme) expense of access to legitimate, regulated ADHD medication makes it unaffordable for a lot of people (and given that it runs in families, it's likely to impact the same family multiple times), and I'm sure that makes drugs like this very tempting. Especially because of the bullshit "natural, herbal" branding.
Apparently kratom is legal in South Africa. I'm going to be paying a *lot* more attention to the ingredients lists on artisanal iced teas from now on.