The Latest Brainless Idea: Brain Drugs for Healthy People

by Tony Isaacs, citizen journalist
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(NaturalNews) In a commentary in the latest edition of the journal Nature, several scientists make the dubious claim that healthy people should have the right to boost their brains with pills, like those prescribed for hyperactive kids or memory-impaired older folks. "We should welcome new methods of improving our brain function," Henry Greely of Stanford Law School in California, Barbara Sahakian, a psychiatry professor from the University of Cambridge in Britain and others wrote, contending that boosting the brain with pills doing is no more morally objectionable than eating right or getting a good night's sleep

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Among several questionable justifications was this gem: since college students are already illegally taking prescription stimulants like Ritalin to help them study, demand for such drugs is likely to grow elsewhere. (One can only wonder if demand for other illegal drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamines grew among college students would that justify recommending those drugs as well?)

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