Amid a national shortage, the US Adderall black market is booming - The Guardian   

With pharmacies unable to fill prescriptions, many ADHD patients are turning to Craigslist to buy illicit pills online

Peruse an online marketplace like Craigslist, and you’ll find coded classified ads for “Study Help” and “Study Hall”, or calls looking for a “Study Buddy”. Despite the scholarly language, these aren’t people looking for pre-final cram session. They’re plugs for Adderall: the trade name for a combination of amphetamine salts long prescribed as a first-choice treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It’s a drug that is, of late, in perilously short supply.

The US National Institute for Mental Health estimates that ADHD affects 4.4% of adults between the ages of 18 and 44. The number of adults treated for ADHD has increased in recent decades, attributable to the wider destigmatization of diagnosing the disorder in adults as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and its knockback effects on adult mental health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that adult prescriptions for ADHD medication increased by 7.9% between 2020 and 2021, compared with a 1.4% average annual increase between 2016 and 2020. In 2021, doctors authorized in excess of 30m prescriptions for Adderall, serving nearly 4 million patients.

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Jetsetting Orbán is speed-dating global strongmen – but at what cost? - The Guardian   

Hungarian PM met a who's who of rightwing leaders on his travels in 2023, as critics point to failures at home

Europe's pariah prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is jetting across the globe in search of friends.

Hungary, an EU and Nato member that has been backsliding on democratic norms for more than a decade, has become even more isolated in the western club over the past months. Orbán has irritated allies by blocking a much-needed EU financial aid package for Ukraine, while Hungary's parliament has dragged its feet on ratifying Sweden's bid to join Nato.

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No, you don’t need to be drinking raw milk - The Guardian   

Thanks to TikTok, raw milk is growing in popularity in the US. But health experts are appalled

Humans love to worry about new technology. In the 1500s, some fretted over the rise of the printing press. In the early 1900s, there were reports that the dangers of telephones included ghosts. Now, a growing number of our foremost thinkers (influencers and bearded men in sleeveless muscle tanks on TikTok) are bemoaning the modern scourge of *checks notes* … pasteurization?

Raw milk is growing in popularity. Here's what you need to know about the trend.

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Dogs may wag their tails so much due to rhythm-loving humans, scientists say - The Guardian   

Experts hypothesise that attractiveness of behaviour was selected for during domestication process

Whether it is an elegant swish or a furious oscillation, tail wagging is ubiquitous among dogs. Now researchers have suggested it may have become commonplace during canine domestication because humans love its rhythm.

It is thought humans domesticated dogs sometime between 15,000 and 50,000 years ago – a process that has led to a fervent bond between the two species, with about a third of households in the UK having a dog.

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