How Adderall Use Ruined The Career of Chris Davis

[@curriy]

As someone with ADHD and someone who has used Aderall daily since 4th grade, I couldn’t imagine stopping it cold turkey after using it for decades. Even as a Yankees fan, Davis was one of my favorite players growing up because of his openness about ADHD. Great video

[@WeHateThePatriots]

I take vyvanse and gave taken it for a few years and tge days I don't take it I feel like an absolute zombie. It's scary how much effect it has on your body but I'm at a point now where I can't imagine life without it now

[@VidaBlue317]

@@WeHateThePatriots if it works for you, then who cares? My mom would drink an entire pot of coffee before work, or she couldn't even get out of bed.

[@aaroncook7036]

Been on both all my life... Adderall is essentially meth/speed. No shame but if you're going to allow one might as well legalize both

[@VidaBlue317]

@@aaroncook7036 meth is apparently neuro-toxic and Ritalin/Vyvanse is neuro-protective and Adderall they don't know..... That could be bullshit though, I'm not an expert

[@smackedcity7125]

Nice J Dilla profile pic you know good music my friend

[@bmass4915]

Manfred has been the biggest detriment to the sport in its history

[@bmass4915]

Manfred trumps the steroid era as the biggest black eye to the league it's legit like he's trying to fuck up the league idk why the owners don't vote him out I mean rob is worse then owners collaborating to not pay players because pretty soon nobody will recognize the game rob will ban strategy for pace of play

[@AndreIguodalaFan55]

I mean, yeah kinda, but how does that correlate with Chris Davis falling apart

[@tonerboner6386]

@@AndreIguodalaFan55 because he took Davis’s medicine that he needed.

[@AndreIguodalaFan55]

@@tonerboner6386 Well, Manfred was named commissioner January 25, 2015, and Davis got denied his waiver 2013, and got suspended 2014

[@tonerboner6386]

@@AndreIguodalaFan55 oh I thought he was commissioner for longer never mind I guess

[@FindingUtopia27]

in 2015 my family took a trip to dc/baltimore and since we're from new england we caught a sox vs o's game while we were there. i remember heckling chris davis about using "peds" (i was 12 and had no clue what adderall was, but i was a massive baseball fan so i was aware of his suspension) and now looking back on it i feel really bad about my actions. as someone who now relies on medication for my own mental health, i am sorry chris davis

[@themiddleagedgamer3503]

Good man.

[@rossedwardmiller]

Far from the worst a Sox fan has yelled an an O’s player in that ballpark lol

[@kylesloane3815]

Thanks for your comment @findingutopia. That is inspirational. So humble you are.

[@absolut645]

Good on you for the self reflection at 13-14 years old. Dont feel bad. Keep being a good person.

[@giantblossom2349]

People remember him for his power, but he was also a great fielder and rarely committed errors. He could pick a ball out of a foot of dirt if he needed to.

[@stephenkuzmak4501]

I thought we would resign Manny Machado because Chris saved him about 20 throwing errors.

[@Nightowl333]

I’d be able to field pretty good too on Adderall

[@Steven-gf1eu]

@@Nightowl333unlikely

[@LessIsMore99]

@@Nightowl333 looks like you're smoking crack

[@arcsine]

super messed up that the league did this too him; if he has actual ADHD (no reason to believe he doesn't) - then the adderal would just make his brain chemistry more average - not at all like a PED/steroid; Major respect for Chris Davis and for you for covering it so reasonable and fair.

[@tomgeorge6012]

He is a good guy. He was very generous in the Baltimore community. It's hard to feel too sorry for him. He is still paid for that fat contract. But he really did care and it bothered him that he wasn't able to live up to it. He was a blast to watch those couple years he was straight.

[@albertlwj]

he didn't really care, he refused to go down to the minors to work things out nor did he agree to reduce his salary.

[@yeah1603]

@@albertlwj work what out his problem was not being able to take his proscribed medicine given out from a doctor

[@Fribbzz]

​@@albertlwj be real dude would you have taken a pay cut if you knew you were on your way out??

[@TheShag944]

​@@albertlwj has that ever happened in any occupation "oh yeah I've been shit sorry you can pay me less."

[@travisp5747]

Fans are so quick to say shit like “he could have taken less money” like I don’t think they realize how wildly dumb that is. Nobody has ever done that.

[@SomeGuyFromOK]

He got screwed over by the league so hard. As someone with ADHD, I vividly remember the day I decided to quit taking Ritalin and the struggles that came after that. I didn’t know what a “withdraw” was at the time, but it explained a lot about the issues I had at school.

[@JoshWomack22]

Yep I hear ya . It’s like we are born without dopamine and the same ability to focus and basically get through life the same way that people without ADHD do .

[@WutTheDeuceGaming]

ADHD is real. One of my managers at work has it. He constantly starts projects, doesn't finish them, and starts a new one without remembering the 1st one he didn't finish. He's very productive at 50+, he's just very... all over the place when it comes to work. ADHD is very real, we joke about and have fun with our coworker, but I cannot imagine trying to hit a baseball having the condition, without the medication required to treat it. I'm surprised he hit the ball at all while off it.

[@Cfh15015]

I feel for anyone going from adderall to Vyvanse. I did the same. It was a nightmare. I was a pro athlete during Chris Davis exact time and well and experienced the exact same thing. Countless times vyvanse kept me awake all night. Being a pro athlete with 4 hours of sleep doesn’t cut it. MLB denied my TUE for adderall as well.

[@Cfh15015]

I’m a sports scientist now. Vyvanse can F with an athlete pretty bad if the athlete doesn’t understand what they’re getting themselves into.

[@susanmenegus5543]

I'm prescribed Adderall .

[@brucerorty4014]

The withdrawal from Vyvanse, when I could no longer afford the co-pays, was 4 days from Hades with the worst splitting headache imaginable. Adderall works better for me than Vyvanse ever did. I read where way more than 33% of tennis players on the ATP tour have an Adderall TUE - a Spanish player recently got a 2-month suspension when he forgot to get his MD note. It's too bad MLB is so totally Neanderthal when it comes to legitimate ADD/ADHD diagnoses and an RX script for Adderall.

[@Demoralized88]

Vyvanse basically converts to Adderall and only exists because it can't be snorted/injected like Adderall, thus has (theoretically) less abuse potential. despite being in the same most restricted drug class (Schedule II). Adderall is about half Dextroamphetamine and Levoamphetamine, while Vyvanse is a prodrug that converts to Dextroamphetamine when taken orally. Dextroamphetamine is one of the oldest Rx amphetamine stimulants and is also still prescribed. It makes no sense to TUE Vyvanse and not Dexedrine (Dextroamp), Adderall, Ritalin, or any of the other Sched II Stimulants prescribed for ADHD.

[@Demoralized88]

@@brucerorty4014 Adderall also works better for me and when I tried Dexedrine (Dextroamphetamine) as Vyvanse produces, I think it actually made me more tired somehow. The Levoamphetamine of Adderall is known to be more broad-acting on the CNS than Dex's mostly mental effects. All that said, Adderall is the only drug I've taken that I experience zero withdrawal effects from despite it being by far the most helpful for me.

[@Number1YankeeFan]

As someone with ADHD, I just want to commend you for how well you did explaining ADHD, it’s huge effects on every day life, and the effects of aderall. It’s not often that someone (I’m assuming) without ADHD can give a fairly accurate and non-harmful explanation of it

[@flelite3994]

Aderall is legal meth you guys are prescription junkies you know that ADHD doesn't exist in China lol it's a just an American hustle to create customers

[@theslickrips5904]

I have it too but I don’t need some internet warrior to defend its use. I know how performance enhancing it is and can understand why baseball wanted him on a time controlled release lol

[@trod5902]

@@theslickrips5904 you have the right mindset. all these clowns want internet points, its quite sad honestly. Every single comment section on KZbin is filled with these kinds of comments, all saying the same thing. "As someone who is..." "As someone who has..." "Can we just take a moment to..." its so cringe its insane

[@gerardfitzgerald1317]

@@trod5902 Modern ballplayers are homos.

[@rdel2007]

ADD and ADHD are made up. Being easily distracted is like "anxiety." These are natural occuring things with all living beings. Youve been bamboozled by big pharma. Yet again. Read kelly brogan.

[@John_Notmylastname]

Guaranteed his adhd would wreck his brain when at the plate. Trying to focus on the pitch his brain would just go to another place. It’s just what happens. No matter how hard you try to bring it back it will eventually go to another place. It certainly controllable at times just not when you want it to. I feel for him.

[@troywilhelm3965]

I have ADHD and play baseball, let me tell you. You have hit io right on the head. When if forget to take my prescribed Adderall I can not focus on the ball, mechanics, and even occasionally the pitch count. I have been a Chirs Davis fan ever since he came to the Orioles, and it's absolutely bull how he couldn't get a TUE for something he needed. Like the creator of the video said he had used previously to the fall of his career.

[@drewjames1676]

I agree with you 100% I remember a lightbulb moment at the plate as a kid. Everytime I would remember to physically say out loud to myself "look at the ball" I would get solid contact. Seems simple and stupid but as I was later diagnosed with adhd and an adult now it makes sense. That little loss of focus when trying to hit a small object moving at you with a stick can be enough to ruin an at bat.

[@drewjames1676]

I played against Chris in college while he was at Navarro and he was a great dude. He was built like a tank even then.

[@DeNiLe_]

This is the content you need to keep making!! I didn't even realize I was watching your channel! I know this took a lot of effort and work! I appreciate it. If you keep making videos like this you will reach massive more subs! Thanks for the content.

[@nathanelizarraraz440]

Agree. Subscribed after this vid!

[@JamesBond-sf3kc]

For real I was like wtf

[@Lsgun22]

I agree with the take on this video. Of course, I only decided to seek a treatment for adhd after I tried methamphetamine and discovered it made me feel like what I felt was normal. I was calm and could think clearly and rationally Not only that, it curbed my use of alcohol and helped me find interest in life again. I then decided to do more research and talk to my Dr for help and with anti-depressants and amphetamines, I actually feel like I enjoy life like I haven't in the past!

[@CKpremium1992]

I just turned 30 and was diagnosed with ADD a few years ago and was prescribed Adderall but lived the rest of my life never getting examined by a physician for this medical condition.. and i can tell you it made the biggest difference and i regret not doing it when I was a kid.. My teachers knew I was highly intelligent and would ace the first test in every class at the beginning of the school year but then my grades would immediately crash to Ds the rest of the semester because I would get distracted by the social life of school and partying and it felt like my mind was constantly all over the place and i could never focus on multiple school subjects.. Im also someone who thought being on prescription drugs was for weak people and it meant you were a crazy person.. I was so wrong and if you have a doctor's prescription you should 100% be allowed to take the medication..

[@williamdowling7718]

You just described me to a t, except I was diagnosed at 34. The saddest part IMO, is that I let myself believe the stuff everyone was saying... "If you just try harder and apply yourself, you would succeed." So I lived my entire childhood, adolescence, and young adult life truly believing that I was just lazy and that I COULD just fix it if I tried harder... But I felt so helpless because every attempt to try harder was a failure. I knew about ADHD... But I always assumed those people just had it much worse than I did... Nope. I had it just as bad as anyone else, and my failure to focus or follow routines or remember basic tasks weren't a result of laziness. I hope that never happens to anyone else again, but I know it will. so instead I hope that this comment resonates with someone who has been beating themselves up for their whole life... Go talk to someone and see if rx stimulants (there's way more than just Adderall) might help. It's life changing.

[@stablegenius6975]

So you’re dead?

[@RicoBurghFan]

It is unthinkable that MLB would ban a substance that is used to treat a medical condition. I mean how hard is it to discern whether a player is abusing it or using it for legit purposes as Davis clearly was. It seems to me he had valid grounds for a lawsuit.

[@thejoshpresle]

You mean like steroids?

[@cejannuzi]

@@thejoshpresle Oh hey doc, I'm over 30 and I feel less masculine. Sure guy, let's start injecting you with steroids and HGH. It's happening all the time.

[@VidaBlue317]

@@thejoshpresle steroids are used for medical conditions... those Low-T commercials. The whole PED issue is a slippery slope. People drink coffee at work. Why? Because it helps them concentrate (ie it improves performance). Should we ban coffee? I think the Olympics actually does ban coffee.

[@JifeLacket]

@@VidaBlue317 Caffeine is not banned by WADA currently. It's definitely a proven and probably the most used PED in sports (when used properly).

[@thejoshpresle]

@@VidaBlue317 that was my point

[@bduds14]

Literally sitting here after not being able to access my Adderall for 4 months due to the shortage and having to change insurance on the verge of crying as I hate the person I am when I'm not able to just have the same mental functionality as others. Good News is, this video literally pushed me to try calling 6 offices to establish care.

[@kevinmac4real]

I had been without it for 6 months (2 prescription cycles) due to the "shortage"... I finally got some a week ago.

[@maxazzopardi7446]

Dude, take vyvanse. I was in your boat but I calmly asked my doctor what are the alternatives and he recommended that prescription drug. My life completely changed because it is so much cleaner and does the exact same thing as adderall.

[@NicEeEe843]

How are there shortages? It’s such a common drug

[@bduds14]

@@NicEeEe843 so companies can charge more.

[@Tweakachu]

Y'all just coke heads with a prescription. Grow up.

[@jonbridge6442]

I have ADHD pretty hard. Lots of the purest of its sypmtoms. I can take my Adderall at midnight and sleep for 10 hours. It's not a performance enhancer at all. It's a needed med for some. I'd be a poor person to others for sure.

[@benellis2271]

Just saying, it can definitely be a performance enhancer. It won’t make u suddenly good at baseball. Pete Rose managed to play well without any treatment, but off the field his behaviour was not great…

[@flelite3994]

Aderall is legal meth you guys are prescription junkies you know that ADHD doesn't exist in China lol it's just an American hustle to create customers

[@winycentaur2540]

@@benellis2271it’s a performance enhancer if you DONT have adhd OR you take a SHIT TON, if you do have adhd and you take a normal dose all it does is uplift you to the average person’s level. Please get educated your ignorance is embarrassing.

[@benellis2271]

@@winycentaur2540 A total of 13,033 abstracts evaluating amphetamine, methamphetamine, methylphenidate, and bupropion were screened. The final analysis included nine studies, six of which found significant improvement in athletic performance with use of stimulant medications (p 

[@MiC-T]

I never thought Chris Davis was anything but a hard luck slugger to slug story. I never felt he was tained in any way. If a doctor prescribes it, you do it.

[@Cody70858]

Well you can get a steroid prescription but I get what you are say. I feel the same way

[@guyincognito320]

Physicians know nothing about the body. For example, if you lack the talent of sitting still in prison public school they give you addictive meth tablets. Almost everyone who takes these things is just a doper looking to cheat or make up for some perceived flaw.

[@dustinssimpson]

Some doctors will just hand you a script for what ever you want as long as you have money. My cousin got arrested for selling the Xanax his Dr prescribed for "panic attacks". All my cousin needed to get the drugs was say i have panic attacks and want Xanax. Had a script in 15 minutes

[@CFBolio]

I heard a story a while back about former NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield, who used Adderall to treat his ADD. In 2009, while racing for his own team, he was suspended for violating NASCAR’s substance abuse policy. He tested positive for methamphetamine and the test was likely a false positive, as he was taking Claritin-D at the time as well as Adderall. That basically ended his NASCAR career although he has found somewhat recent success in late model racing.

[@freedomcostsabuck05]

Jeremy Mayfield was also doing meth

[@thorinhanson1181]

We loved Chris in Baltimore. But so many turned on him when he crashed. Bars even had a promotion that everyone in the bar would get a free shot and beer if Davis got a hit.

[@leomaltos3901]

Had Bud Selig as a professor. According to him, amphetamines used to be easy to access in the locker room. A lot of teams had bowls of pills. Selig mentioned that players would take them by the handful

[@rustyshackelford4224]

Of course, so how come the media never talks about this???

[@BrownWolverine]

Your earlier work got me to subscribe. These mini docu's, keep it up. They are good.

[@askmiller]

As an orioles fan, was saying this for years that not having adderall was clearly impacting Davis. I don't know if it was an unfair advantage, but it was like a light switch was flipped when he came back and he just couldn't hit anything. Instead his decline was treated like he just wasn't trying hard enough, as if any of us watching could just try harder and become Chris Davis.

[@patrickcasey3618]

I have ADHD, I need the medication to stay focused

[@MothBallsYT]

Thanks for the content during the holidays :)

[@Dr.MalcomsBrokenLeg]

Nice job dude, I agree with you. I was born with ADHD and have delt with it my whole life, I tried medication once and never did it again as it felt odd. However, the levels of ADHD are extremely wide when it comes to how severe certain people suffer from it and believe it or not. It's such a weird and complex thing to have. Trust me. They are finding that some of the diagnosis's are hereditary but are also developed do to a lack of key nutrients for the brain in diet and also environmental/lifestyle factors. Not good sleep and high screen time is one of those plaguing kids today. One of the key things with ADHD that is assumed is the lack of ability to focus. When in reality, it's actually the opposite. ADHD has a huge ability to what they call "Hyper Focus" but only when the brain or the person finds that thing they are willing to focus on worth the stimulation or stimulating enough to keep their focus on that. Otherwise, if it isn't stimulating enough, then the brain just looks for the thing that will be instead of focusing on what's in front of them. But, that's different for a lot of folks with ADHD depending on the severity. For me, baseball is one of those. That was my one thing I could absolutely without fail hyper focus on and it was obvious to everyone I knew. I'm extremely passionate about my family, friends and loved ones and God. I try to put my energy into those things and unlock that and be more aware of it. However, Chris seemed to suffer from a very high form of ADHD and it showed in his play and also your digging into his mishaps with all the MLB stuff. MLB needs to stay out of things like that when its proven a player has that type of diagnosis and let the player and his doctor discuss courses of treatment with in MLB's guidelines of okay to use substances. Punishing him for it was really weird unless they found evidence proving he lied about having ADHD. Doesn't seem likely though.

[@robbyfrankz]

Having to stop Adderall while having a newborn baby sounds like a hellish nightmare that no ADHDer should endure. If I personally forget to take my meds, my life would spiral. Add to that the pressures of being a good professional baseball player, and it’s no wonder what happened to Chris Davis happened. That really sucked.

[@bennettflynn5278]

I had no idea this is why he collapsed. Growing up Davis was my absolute favourite player. I remember a lot of rumours about PEDs and I didn’t want to believe it. His downfall (and the Orioles downfall with it) was really tough to watch

[@kylesloane3815]

Yeah this is really enlightening knowledge to me too! This really explains things.

[@JohnGaltGurgi]

Crush was loved in Baltimore and the way his career just fizzled out is a sad way to end. But for a couple of years he was freaking awesome.

[@theninjaofmusic]

I can tell you ADHD and baseball typically arent a good mix. There is so much down time in baseball that we with ADHD get bored and distracted. And at the plate you often have to be patient which is not something we accel at either.

[@eshep71]

You're telling buddy lol let me lose in practice and I was like a machine compared to the harness of a game.

[@flelite3994]

Aderall is legal meth you guys are prescription junkies you know that ADHD doesn't exist in China lol it's just an American hustle to create customers

[@theninjaofmusic]

@@flelite3994 Weird you say that because I have a friend from China who has ADHD.

[@ayftb6558]

people forget that he had a sick 2020 spring training before everything shut down

[@adamglover6201]

I have always felt bad for him. Still my favorite player of all time.

[@cyclone997]

i feel the same way. he’s my favorite player of all time. seeing him struggle so much at the plate was tough. i remember watching the game where he broke the 0-54 streak and being so excited that he finally did it. unfortunately he was never able to return to the way he used to be.

[@ryanc9888]

He made 100 million, I wouldn’t feel that bad lol

[@JacquamillafiousJBH]

“Manscaping Major League Baseball”

[@JacquamillafiousJBH]

“Jacking baseballs”

[@Lionlover666]

As an adhd person I loved watching Made The Cut just say nope to pronouncing Vyvanse. (Its pronounced Vy-Vans)

[@michaelbaums1152]

I have ADD and needed Aderall near every day for years to function like a normal person. However, if you do not have ADD, it will definitely keep you alert and give you some intense focus. A baseball player could definitely benefit from that over 162.

[@cohyncutler7768]

those 2012-2015 years were tough being a jays fan when chris came up to bat it felt like he always hit at least 1 dinger a game

[@ebogar42]

population of 80,000 and small city should never be in the same sentence. There is nothing small about that. Small is like 6,000 people and everyone knows one another.

[@johnlarson9246]

I wonder if Giancarlo Stanton could benefit from using adderall

[@King_of_Sofa]

if i was a baseball player, i would take magic mushrooms. that shit just works

[@mark_thurwanger]

MLB screwed him over. I’ve taken Adderall every day for 10 years and completely agree that the withdrawal symptoms can change your personality overnight. I know anyone that also takes it daily will swear by this statement as well. The fact that he was forced stop taking it is honestly criminal. Vyvanse is decent if you start out with it, but switching to it after taking Adderall for many years will take months for the body to adjust to it since the medications are not a 1 to 1 comparison. The fact that he was taking it and still sucked early in his career should have been evidence enough for MLB that it wasn’t giving him an edge.

[@Truckerdaddy]

Vyvance did absolutely zero for my son even on the strongest dose he could take at the time. He's now up to 3 doses a day of Amephetamine Salts (generic Adderall) and he can still be tough to handle some days

[@mark_thurwanger]

@@Truckerdaddy I read that the max dose of Vyvanse is equivalent to around 20-30 mg of Adderall so that’s why I feel like it doesn’t work for most people. I also take Addy 3x daily and that’s been the sweet spot for me since I was in college

[@justingerald]

As someone with ADHD, the stigma is real.

[@mark_thurwanger]

Completely agree, I hate how MLB has decided to view it as a made up diagnosis.

[@winosandbar5077]

As a neurodivergent person I feel for those with adhd in sports… the problem is there is a performance enhancing attribute to adderall… it makes red blood cells carry more oxygen… but that said I feel it only is helpful in sports that require large and constant running…

[@WeHateThePatriots]

@winosandbar5077 I take Vyvanse which is very similar to Adderall and I feel like while mentally its a huge boost it drains a TON of electrolytes and needs a lot of protein to break down to work effectively, some can say it's detrimental to high cardio sports. It's very noticeable how much more drained I feel after exercising on it vs off it - doing sport related activities it feels like your body is working twice as hard for no real reason on it due to overstimulation if that makes sense but I feel as a millionaire with all the resources possible to make the medication work as effective as humanly possible I can see how it can be unfair.

[@pcizzle22]

@@winosandbar5077 at therapeutic levels the performance enhancing parts just aren't gonna be big enough to matter, recreational use is much higher doses, like 5+ times therapeutic

[@flelite3994]

Aderall is legal meth you guys are prescription junkies you know that ADHD doesn't exist in China lol it's a just an American hustle to create customers

[@christianforbes-so3zl]

Adderal ruined my soccer career. At age 17 I was playing semi pro. I was diagnosed with ADHD. This drug was making my heart feel like it was going to explode. I couldn't sprint 20 yards without falling over. I tried to quit that crap but it was hard. A season later, when I finally got off of it, I had lost my spot. Depression got the best of me. I hate that stuff.

[@MahaneyMedia]

He was a smart man too, he went the Bobby Bonilla route and chose deferred payments. Orioles will pay him 9.16M from 2023-2025, 3.5M from 2026-2032, and 1.4M from 2033-2037. Making bjg baseball money without ever having to swing a bat.

[@fpsgoku4207]

Ppl without adhd muat think we take adderall to be better than them, it just makes us be normal like them we are just harder workers when we have our attention under control.

[@George_Grunert]

I take it for tennis

[@grungeface]

Ruined? This dude is Reid tired and getting paid millions every year until mid - 2030

[@daBEAGLE1017]

The are people who are extremely hyper and Adderall calms them down. When prescribed by a legit doctor, they are a wonderful drug.

[@chriscraven9335]

Negative, it has different effects. In children and adolescents, it slows them down and allows them to focus. In adults, it's the opposite, it speeds them up and gives them energy.

[@applesAndCamelCasing]

@@chriscraven9335 Not true. It doesn’t effect everyone the same way. I am an adult and my daily dose is very relaxing and calming.

[@xancypillosi9497]

I’m prescribed. They won’t cut u off cold turkey tho. That’s immoral

[@poindextertunes]

I glad he mentioned Greenies There was also once a clubhouse that had 2 different pots of coffee, the one with green tape on the handle was spiked with Amphetamines

[@Homerj1117]

This is a tricky one... Adderall is definitely a performance enhance drug and their are people who genuinely need it

[@beinquisitive]

Adderall is definitely performance enhancing

[@Marylandterpenes]

Brought his glove and all!2:45 go sit down somewhere behind the plate or netting where you'll be more safe!! Jeez I know his boys never let him live that down! I know I wouldn't

[@themiddleagedgamer3503]

Having a diagnosis should have been enough to let him keep taking the drug. I never thought of Chris as a bad guy, or rule breaker. He just flamed out and that happens in sports.

[@coolstufftodo5256]

If you actually have adhd you know that meds don’t help much in sports because we are probably already hyper focusing on sports. The meds help your day to day functionality

[@eshep71]

So true. Sometimes the dead time in a game is a little slow compared to practice.

[@thgochenaur1989]

I think most of us true O's fans don't hold any ill-will towards him. He is a great guy, and we had some phenomenal seasons with him. Just got caught up in the bureaucracy of the MLB. People who have a legitimate use of a drug get punished because someone wanted to try and get an unfair edge. Still wear my Davis jersey with fond memories of those Crush seasons.

[@user-pp6bp7vp5u]

As a faithful O's fan of 40 years, I feel the same.

[@tagalong2313]

Ruined his career? Hell no. He’s STILL the 2nd highest paid Oriole (even though he’s retired) and WILL be through 2039. I call that a win.

[@alemswazzu]

Adderall is over prescribed, without question, which is unfortunate for the many people who truly cannot live a "normal" life without it. Stimulants have been around for almost a century and they will continue to be used and abused. Like the drug war itself, uneducated people who don't have any understanding of the nuances of certain substances, unfortunately are in power and make short sighted blanket decisions that are detrimental to everyone. While not actually addresing the problem.

[@eddie992020]

It's crazy how steroids means everything is cheating. Actually I have heard anyone pop hot for Marijuana, cocaine or anything of that sort. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@neilmeschino4070]

Adderall being banned even with a doctor's prescription is about as crazy as weed being banned

[@jemmitt21]

ADHD also impacts someone’s ability to regulate emotions, some people are more prone to outbursts of anger

[@naval_james4448]

I didn’t know any of this happened to him I feel awful that he went through this and the MLB is dumb for punishing someone for treating their mental health especially when he’s been taking long before stardom pro sports need to realize that not everyone is trying to cheat the system some times it’s hard to tell but it you dig into a case, they would have seen that the man need help and they turned a blind eye to him

[@Austinjetel]

As someone who coaches hitters for a living and has worked with the pinnacle of MLB hitting coaches… and being someone with ADHD and having experience taking adderall for it during games… Davis’ adderall use and stopping of use has very little to do with his downfall… I predicted his downfall during his biggest statistical season due to his swing mechanics being very poor.

[@cert4]

he was dropping his hands so bad

[@landorock484]

Great video and very informative!

[@Mundanesoup4]

I think the O's are still paying him lol

[@mrmoose6619]

Being an out of market O's fan, I didn't really hear much about this until now. Thanks for sharing... Though I do wonder if Brady Anderson had anything to do with this?

[@thunderhawk358]

I hate this story because it brings so many good memories that ended so badly

[@hockeyfan9456]

I’m so confused as to how adderall is viewed as a banned substance, all it does is allow people with ADHD to actually focus like a normal human …… I don’t see how that’s cheating at all lol

[@toughbutsweet1]

I really like Chris Davis and am a long-suffering Orioles fan. But I was surprised how much he was awarded on his contract extension after being really only good for two years. I can't imagine what Davis was feeling when he was in his 0-54 stretch for someone as competitive as a professional athlete.

[@CharmCityGamer]

If they hadn't taken it away or suspended Chris...man what could've been. I miss him already.

[@keithsmith9075]

Adderall is meth. Meth is not good for kids but its very profitable for Drug companies to get 3rd graders addicted to meth

[@334outdoors8]

If addys only made you know your strike zone better he might be know as a bond’s level hitter but alas no but baseball isn’t the only sport with this problem it’s happened in nascar too

[@randomstuff508]

Between the summer of 2019 and the beginning of 2022, I stopped taking my adderall cold turkey. Within that timeframe, I was probably at my lowest points in my life. I gained weight, couldn't focus on menial tasks, dropped out of college, and especially during the later half of 2019, I could barely remember or think clearly for myself. Half the time, I didnt even know what I was doing. For Davis to play while essentially quitting cold turkey, and still getting the bat on the ball is a miracle in itself.

[@Defx10]

With or without Aderall, Chris Davis was what he was: a consistently inconsistent player year to year. That said, what MLB did to him was appalling

[@james8156]

I really feel sorry after hearing this. I didn't know a prescribed drug for a mental health disorder (diagnosed) would be illegal😐

[@mattymo56]

Well Adderall is legal amphetamines aka speed.

[@bobbyhall7472]

There has been a bunch of MLB players who use Adderall.

[@TBone31]

The new drug that Davis used is pronounced “vie - Vance” I’m a high school baseball player and I have had adhd struggles my whole life, and I have been taking it (under prescription) and I can confirm that it doesn’t outright benefit the player. Oddly enough, sometimes I would play better when I didn’t use it lol

[@cohenoswalt5899]

Bro Im on adderall and I still suck at baseball, this is awful.

[@EclecticBuddha]

The sprinter with the prosthetic legs comes to mind as a parallel. Does the athlete have a legitimate medical condition? Yes. Does the treatment for that medical condition give the player an unfair advantage? There's a strong case to be made that it does. There are also plenty of doctors who will write scripts for PEDs or who could be tricked by athletes into writing one. It's complicated.

[@thejoshpresle]

Yeah that was always my biggest issue with that sprinter... Wife killer or not I was never a fan of how he had an advantage over those runners

[@jonosterman2878]

@@thejoshpresle sure, that’s why he still lost Most of the time

[@DemocracyFirst2025]

0:45 very creative pronunciation of the word, “alcoholism”.

[@thawkereynolds]

OK let’s get something very straight 88 RBIs at the all star break is not close to 191 for the year. The All-Star break is not at the halfway point of the season. It’s typically after game 92-95. 88 is impressive but it’s nowhere within striking distance of 191.

[@calekarr10]

Adderall should be exempt for players with properly diagnosed ADD/ADHD. Period. It's a lifesaver for us squirrel brained folk. It's a performance enhancer of sorts, because it helps focus. But, it's not like it makes us stronger or less injury prone, etc...

[@jerwur39l94]

Does the moderator take Adderall as well?

[@YT_AKai_]

When I was in HS I was prescribed vyvanse and it worked but took away my appetite to the point where I didn’t eat for a whole week- not one snack so I immediately stopped taking it

[@mark_thurwanger]

It worked wonders for me for about a week, then made me completely zoned out to everything like a zombie and I also lost my appetite.

[@YT_AKai_]

@@mark_thurwanger I’ll say this for it tho- I’ve never pitched more accurately than I did that week 🤷🏻‍♂️ so on the other side of the ball I would say there’s possible benefits if you’re adhd

[@TheTEN24]

Can’t say I’m surprised, pretty messed up situation for Davis but then again this is Rob Manfred and MLB we’re talking about.

[@magicoddeffect]

Wow, yet another thing Manfred has done to make the game worse. That policy of suddenly not renewing a bunch of medication authorizations is absolutely asinine.

[@Zach_CR]

Humans have a very interesting need to make everything “fair”. We go to great lengths and then proceed to conveniently ignore disparities everyday.

[@ronmexico7256]

This man legit claimed there’s no scientific evidence that amphetamines increase performance which is absurd. I feel like you could of made a compelling case for Davis without resorting to lies 😂

[@xancypillosi9497]

It’s like in 70/80s taking greenies. Methamphetamines

[@Asshat237]

Davis was simply a big, slow, first baseman. They are notorious for going downhill soon around age 30 - see Ryan Howard, Cecil and Prince Fielder, etc.

[@AdubsMMA]

I was dating this chick back when I was 19 and she was prescribed adderall… We ended up staying up all night “exercising” and she had to work at 7 am.. Anyway, she took 2 and gave me 2 cause I had to drive her to to work, after that I went to a basketball court for like 6 hours and proceeded to shoot like 80% the entire time. It was insane. I was convinced that adderall was a PED since that day. 😂

[@DukesMusic84]

This is one of the most important discussions you can possibly have. Drugs will ruin your life, doesn't matter if it's Adderall or percs or cocaine or lean. Stay off that shit, stay clean, stay healthy. It's the only way forward.

[@atraxisdarkstar]

2:13: "An area that has produced a bounty in all three major sports." TIL East Texas is great at putting out hockey players, but not so good at putting out basketball players.

[@billycole852]

My father has built a bunch of custom furniture and trimmed out his house in Texas. He said he's super down to earth and nice.

[@dgrblue4162]

Blaming the player for signing a lucrative contract is silly. If your employer came to you and told you that they wanted to give you $161 million for the next 7 seasons, you would sign anything which guarantees that. If anything, blame the team or the owner for not doing its due diligence. Also, blame the team for fully guaranteeing the amount.

[@nathanammon4021]

If you’re add or adhd your at a disadvantage sometimes I prefer it over mass quantities of sugar they I coped before I knew what my problem was. The fact is baseball is a mental game someone with add can’t be the only tool in an arsenal he would have been better off on a better team batting in the middle of the lineup rather than the teams only slugger. Like a Scott Rollen batting behind Albert Puljos and Jim Edmonds. That organization I think has always been disfunctional anyway

[@johnf1235]

Me and my friends used to pop these little shits all the time and it will make you laser focused, especially in college when I needed to bust out some homework at 2 AM. But don’t do this shit unless you’re prescribed to it. Its not worth it, as you may have health complications later down the road.

[@mmorpggaminghd]

One of the most forgotten sluggers. There was a time when "facing Chris Davis" sounded almost as scary as "facing Jim Thome Prime".

[@davidpalmer5967]

MLB Destroyed his Career pretty much

[@xancypillosi9497]

Yup. No biggie taking meth lol

[@ronaldmccutcheon1329]

Funny. Tate Casey is my wife's cousin, and she just wished him happy birthday this morning. Davis played high school baseball right down the street from us. I hope that he's doing well now.

[@aybgreg6748]

Exactly what I try to tell ppl about ADHD. Idiots think it's bouncing off the walls. Like u stop at a Red Light, put car in Park, and look at work emails

[@TadMichaelMasterson]

As someone diagnosed with adhd who performed a military career and a decade as a 911 operator with no adhd meds whatsoever, I can tell you it's not real. It's a hard thing to admit when you're dug in, but the truth is usually difficult to settle up with. And before you say I was probably misdiagnosed and "just don't really have it", I've been diagnosed by four different doctors, well into adulthood.