Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store

Next, some app named Nitrogen will be banned because it is related to explosives and therefore to terrorists.

Nitrogen is an element, and a very common one at that. Explosives are a fringe use case.

Amphetamine on the other hand has only one very well defined use case.

I get the reference to another similar app (Caffeine) but this is a step too far, indeed portraying a dangerous drug in a positive light.

It's not portraying anything in a positive light. The fact that this is the name of the app implies no value judgement.

> Amphetamine on the other hand has only one very well defined use case.

Are you referring to the widespread use of it as an ADHD medication for children all throughout the nation?

I seriously doubt your nerdsniping changes the point of the original poster. Which you could easily figure out if you weren't so eager to jump upon every single minute detail and consequently missed the forest for the trees.

which use case did you mean? treatment for narcolepsy? ADHD?

Apologies, where I come from this is not a common treatment for ADHD. I’m not a specialist but as a father of two lively boys I did my share of reading about diagnosing and treating ADHD in Europe.

I wouldn’t call it nerdsniping. I found OPs argument to be a strawman.

Or perhaps to its widespread use as a stimulant for narcolepsy sufferers - which is clearly what the app's name is alluding to.

It's like banning an app called fertilizer because fertilizer can be used to make bombs.

Like the author pointed out, millions of Americans take legal amphetamines every year. I'd wager a bet that legal users of amphetamines outnumber the illegal users 10,000 to 1. Besides, amphetamine is just the name of the compound, it doesn't suggest anything. If you imply that simply knowing that amphetamines can keep you awake is dangerous, then I'd like to point you towards centuries of proof that not telling people about sex totally stops them from having it.

Vyvanse was approved in Europe ~5+ years ago and is a hugely successful and widely used product.

I apologize if I'm misunderstanding your comment. But just to help others avoid confusion, ADHD isn't the same as being extra energetic.

And adults as well

What drugs are, according to your reasearch, widely used in Europe? Here in Canada, Amphetamines are widespread, from Vyvanse to Adderall to Evekeo.

It is, they just call it something else like Adderall, Evekeo or whatever.

Ritalin is the dominant drug in that regard, and while it is very similar in every respect, it is not amphetamine-the-substance nor, I believe, technically in the class of substances also referred to as amphetamines.

(someone stated that amphetamines are now available in the EU market. But, if so, it's likely that few people will know, mostly because discussions of ADHD have somewhat faded)

>It's like banning an app called fertilizer because fertilizer can be used to make bombs.

Great and extremely apt analogy!