One of my students is on ADHD medication and my god, it's like someone removed the batteries on his personality or something on the days when he takes it. There's got to be something better.
Saw this with my brother. The one with Aspergers. Supposedly also ADD, but I don't believe he ever was. It never seemed to me like my parents tried very much to understand how they could work with who he is and help him learn to manage himself. They were all about finding the right medication to make him easier to manage. They tried many different medications in different combinations over several years.
Towards the end of high school, they found one set of meds that turned him completely into a robot. His school performance suddenly shot up to the best in his life, but he also had zero appetite or motivation to do anything except what he was told. He would do his homework, eat when told to, and sleep. And that was it. He was like that for a few months before he finally refused to take any more medications, claiming he didn't even feel like a human being when he was on that last cocktail.
And of course after being jerked around on all kinds of substances from ages 10-17, thereby robbed of any opportunity to develop an understanding of himself during the most crucial years for such development, and treated by almost everyone like he needed to be fundamentally altered in order to integrate with society, he proceeded to completely flunk the rest of his senior year worse than he'd ever flunked before. Followed by dropping out of college after a couple years. He continues to live with our parents as a textbook case NEET, and in his mid-twenties shows no signs of ever changing.
Pisses me off whenever I think about it.