Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (2010)
This was an interesting read but, as an adult with ADHD, all I get out of this is that medication is even more of a benefit to those with real difficulties coping with their ADHD.  I've always been one to 'just deal with it' but after a few years of working through school and seeing my younger brothers go through the same thing with medication, I realized that I was essentially just handicapping myself.Now I take medication in the morning before I get to work and it basically lasts me through the work/school day.  When I was younger I was perscribed ritalin, and it just made me sleepy so I stopped taking it.  Now I take a more modern medication and it works wonders.  The negative stigma against medication really harmed me in school, and I wonder how different things would've been for me if I had started taking an effective medication at 16 and not at 25.