Archive for April, 2009

Is Adderall Good for the Economy?

One consequence of reading Margaret Talbot’s New Yorker piece on neuro-enhancing drugs is that it made we want some.
(Indeed, the piece itself had a nice way of pulling this off, since my attention span is so addled by the Internet that it took me about three sittings to finish it.)
But in addition to all sorts [...]

Illegal drugs aid concentration

One in ten Cambridge University students have admitted to taking drugs to help them study.
A survey conducted by Varsity revealed that students have been using non-prescription drugs to improve their concentration and alertness.
A third-year student who started using a concentration-enhancing drug several weeks ago said: “Modafinil has undoubtedly aided my concentration.”
Since then she has been [...]

OxyContin – Stuff you need to know

OK so its not related to provigil/Modafinil/Modalert, but pain-killer abuse is killing hundreds of teenagers every single year and the daddy of them all is Oxycontin, an opioid based pain-killer manufactured by Purdue Pharma. As a result I believe it deserves its place here on our website.
According to statistics there are around 15 million Americans [...]

Provigil-RX: An online pharmacy spam magnet

Its a sad indictment of the world in which we live, that any efforts to create a valuable informational resource will always be spoiled by those who have neither the inclination or the know-how to undertake a similar project for themselves.
What do I mean exactly?
Its a well-known fact that online pharmacy sales is one of [...]