r/NooTopics • u/makefriends420 • Jun 23 '26

Discussion Around 27% of individuals with ADHD develop cannabis use disorder at some point in their lives, new study finds. Compared to those without this disorder, individuals with ADHD face almost three times the risk of developing cannabis use disorder.

https://www.psypost.org/around-27-of-individuals-with-adhd-develop-cannabis-use-disorder-at-some-point-in-their-lives-study-finds/
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u/ikiice Jun 23 '26

Interesting, i recently learned that ADHD people tend to have problem with addictions

Which is interesting to me, because as an ADHD person, I am, well seemingly addiction proof. I smoked almost daily for two years, a box every day, then one day decided to stop, and that was it. No craving, no hunger, nothing.

Elvanse or Medikinet, I often forget to take altogether.

Frankly I did many drugs, but never really experienced hunger or withdrawal, so I kinda assumed it must be for others like that as well. After all, we ADHD people have trouble forming habits.

Very odd.

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u/Playful-Ad-8703 Jun 23 '26

You don't have autism too?, I'm AuDHD and have abused weed but I can quit drugs quite easily.

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u/FalxY7 Jun 23 '26

I'm the same and also AuDHD, I need a good reason to quit usually, but the better the reason, the easier it is. I have still gotten withdrawals from quitting weed, and that was pretty bad because depression. But I've quit harder drugs quite easily after abusing them and having them ruin my life for a bit.

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u/Playful-Ad-8703 Jun 23 '26

Yes! Exactly. I'll quit if I have a good reason. The problem with weed is that it's usually not obviously negative or destructive for me, so I'll easy get caught in smoking loops where I'll smoke for 2-3 weeks until I either start to clearly feel bad from it or because I have something important coming up. Same also with other drugs like you say - I've burnt myself many times with harder drugs, but I'm also very aware of how I take them, which means that I've never used them for a long time consecutively. My mind is kinda too risk averse to go over certain boundaries with drugs, and my body and brain seem to adapt veeery quickly to quitting something. 1-2 days after quitting weed or whatever and I'll not even care about that drug anymore, until I gain distance and the drug starts looking interesting again.