From an article entitled “Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy”
We should welcome new methods of improving our brain function.
Society must respond to the growing demand for cognitive enhancement. That response must start by rejecting the idea that ‘enhancement’ is a dirty word, argue Henry Greely and colleagues.
In this article, we propose actions that will help society accept the benefits of enhancement, given appropriate research and evolved regulation. Prescription drugs are regulated as such not for their enhancing properties but primarily for considerations of safety and potential abuse. Still, cognitive enhancement has much to offer individuals and society, and a proper societal response will involve making enhancements available while managing their risks.
Today, on university campuses around the world, students are striking deals to buy and sell prescription drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin — not to get high, but to get higher grades, to provide an edge over their fellow students or to increase in some measurable way their capacity for learning. These transactions are crimes in the United States, punishable by prison.
Many people see such penalties as appropriate, and consider the use of such drugs to be cheating, unnatural or dangerous. Yet one survey estimated that almost 7% of students in US universities have used prescription stimulants in this way, and that on some campuses, up to 25% of students had used them in the past year. These students are early adopters of a trend that is likely to grow, and indications suggest that they’re not alone.
Whatever happend to beer and weed?
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I enjoy the mild stimulent and euphoric effects of coffee. I don’t think it’s long before young college students or soldiers do either. Red Bull seems really popular these days, too. I was drinking it in the 80’s in Europe, but it wasn’t until this decade the United States “legalized” it. I don’t drink it anymore. I know one person who drank it for a long time before being told it has massive amounts of caffeine. They just thought it was an “energy drink.” Rightly are the simple so called.