Smart Drugs....

[creature6]

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6558871.stm?lsm)


The government is assessing the impact of a new generation of drugs that are claimed to make people more intelligent.

The Department of Health has asked the Academy of Medical Sciences to assess these so-called "cognition enhancing" drugs, some of which are already being widely used in the US.

In the 1960s the self styled guru, Dr Timothy Leary, urged American youth to "tune in, turn on and drop out".

Now a new generation of so-called designer drugs are becoming available.

But instead of fuelling a new drop-out culture, they are being used by people who think they will help them do better at school and work.

One of these drugs, Modafinil, was developed to treat people who involuntarily fall asleep.


Performance enhancing drugs, good or bad? Is this an acceptable way to boost learning?

[Tiphareth]

Viagra for the brain??
As you implied in your school's post...state education is turning to shit and government quango's come up with a new strategy every week for fucking it up even more. We used to have grammar schools and secondary moderns...they recognised that some kids were more suited to academic studies while others were better at practical things. And sure, it wasn't perfect but now we try to fit all the shapes of peg into the same hole and can't work out why it goes wrong!
And so like everything now we want quick fixes, hence all those awful brainpower games on the market which actually do damn all to raise you mental capacity by one iota.
We live in a disposable society...instant gratification, instant fix and if it doesn't work within a week then throw it away and move on to the next thing.
All you really need to do is recognise it and make the necessary changes in yourself.
You're an artist but you don't arrive at a masterpiece within a couple of weeks...it takes dedication and practice hence Edison's quote about genius being 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
You won't find that in a bottle.
And so when it comes to raising your own child make damn sure that you and Mr Creature take responsibility for feeding his/her brain yourselves cos unless something changes radiacally in the next few years you can be sure that the schools wont be doing it, no matter how driven and dedicated their teachers.

[PortraitOfSanity]

Think how much better the world would be if people weren't so stupid...

[Saya]

Great, now while we trying to figure out if someone's tits are real, now we'll do the same for brains.