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Would you take smart drugs to perform better at work?
Drugs that boost brainpower are increasingly being taken by healthy people to study or work harder. Could this become the norm, or a condition of employment? Would you let your child get on a bus driven by someone on mind-altering drugs? What about having an operation conducted by a surgeon taking stimulant pills? Unappealing at first glance; however would your opinion change if you knew those drugs made the driver less likely to crash, and the surgeon better able to keep a steady hand?
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"if you knew these drugs made the driver less likely to crash, and the surgeon better able to keep a steady hand?"..... No and nope, esp when the probability/possibility of misuse is introduced.
Yes, if it means i can understand materials better to do better in university, Hell yes.
If the drugs help me land a better job, 100%.
Even if it meant liver, kidney, or heart, etc, damage later on?...... Folks: better living through chemistry has long term health implications.
oh, you're right. I assumed these were prescribed and thus tested by the FDA.
"prescribed and thus tested by the FDA"..........testing of these drugs is funded and preformed by the very pharmaceutical companies that would manufacture them. Most of the many side-effects known at testing are displayed on accompanying literature,.......other effects may be yet unknown or deliberately omitted. If one wishes to enhance any part of one's life through drugs of any sort makes no difference to most,.........unless it adversely affects another's.
Another bad idea.