By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Michael W. Smith, MD
What’s wrong with healthy people taking brain-boosting drugs? Nothing, seven leading scientists and ethicists announced this week, (first published December 2008).
Polls suggest that as many as one in five scientists already take brain-boosting drugs — usually the stimulants Ritalin, Adderall, or Provigil.
And there’s [...]
When the FDA approved modafinil (Provigil) in 1999, night shift workers and international travelers lined up for prescriptions. Soon, reports came in that modafinil, while living up to its promise of increased alertness, caused side effects of irritability, edginess and weight loss, symptoms similar to those of amphetamine and related sympathomimetic amines.
Suspicions of its potential [...]
Imagine if you will, that you have just invented a new plumbing device. Lets call it the foo-foo flange. And your foo-foo flange looks set to generate sales of $4 billion dollars over the next 6 years.
But on the horizon are four major competitors. And even though your foo-foo flange patent looks set to protect [...]
Behind the frightening numbers are the frightened faces of children, hundreds of them in Butte County, hooked on powerful drugs they get from their parents’ medicine cabinets.
Authorities say the use of opiates — which include Oxycontin, Fentanyl, Vicodin, Soma, Ritalin, cough syrups and any medication ending in “pam” — are on the increase among Butte [...]