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Congratulations, you have the ability to Google terms and grab links to things that you think support your point. I'm very proud of you.

Something you are apparently unable to do.

Your first link posits that low dose stimulant medications may decrease odds of substance abuse disorder, however it flat out shows that untreated ADHD carries an increased risk of substance abuse including abuse of stimulants.

Yes...... Because they tend to be self medicating and not able to do so properly, you know because they aren't doctors.

Think it out...... If people with ADHD are more likely to abuse substances, and treating it with a substance that is generally addictive to people without ADHD lowers the chance of people with ADHD to abuse substances.....what does that tell us?

Your second link.... derp. It's saying that when a person takes a measured dose of a medication with high potential for abuse from childhood on they're less likely to abuse that medication.

Not the general public, it was specifically about children with ADHD . The study claims that Children with ADHD who are prescribed stimulants for treatment of ADHD gain long-term resilience to abusing all substances, not just stimulants.

Neither of those say people with ADHD are magically immune to addiction or the addictive effects of stimulants. They're not.

That's a straw man argument of your own creation, no one has made that claim.

I never said otherwise.

Lol, you say that two sentences later "having brains wired so very differently that stimulants effect them in entirely different ways when compared to people without adhd."

The reason a lot of people have ADHD can accurately be described as having brains wired differently. Specifically that they do not transmit dopamine efficiently compared to neuro typical people. You just don't know enough about physiology or pharmacology to understand what you are even saying.