[kretash]

Reading the comments I feel like there are 2 polarized sides that state that everyone they work with uses some sort of stimulant or that they have never encountered it during their career.

It's hard to get a sense of how common it is to encounter stimulants in the tech sector from reading this thread.

[DanBC]

Water testing is now so good you could just gather samples from the sewage line of various companies to do some testing.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2516581/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4746787.stm

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z43kk9/the-plan-t...

[opportune]

I really think it's that drug users are very good at recognizing who's "cool" and who's not. I wouldn't be surprised if half the people at my undergrad CS program weren't even aware of the stimulant phenomenon because they just weren't friends with people who did that kind of stuff

There's also a huge age gap in that older people are probably less likely to abuse drugs for maturity/responsibility reasons, and that no 25 year old developer in their right mind would mention their/their friends' drug use to their 40 year old colleague. And older people didn't grow up in during the era where stimulants were being handed out like candy to kids to get them to shut up