If you’ve ever sensed an urgent need to grow smarter… more alert … or better skilled to face tough challenges at work … it could be that you are competing with peers who pop drugs daily to enhance their brains.
Interestingly … The New York Times just raised ethical questions about fast increasing brain enhancements that give users an intellectual edge.
Perhaps you read the recent admission in the journal Nature where two Cambridge University researchers told how a dozen or so colleagues used Adderall regularly as a stimulant during their days … and to remain more awakened … and to improve their academic performance … many took Provigil.
Due to the raging debates the journal Nature recently created a more extensive survey on the topic of non-medical drug use … that helps people climb up career ladders faster and smarter.
Some people feel this trend is a harbinger of the next frontier in a culture that demands more intelligence in less time for higher performances.
Others claim regular use of brain enhancement drugs are not only dangerous … but also highly unethical … when drugs give unfair advantages to a few.
What do you say?
How do these people get these prescriptions? Seems like the ethics extends beyond the users somehow!
Posted by: Robyn | March 9, 2008 9:10 AM | Permalink to Comment