This attitude, painting cognitive enhancers with a broad and critical brush, is not helping things. Cognitive enhancers have the ability to improve persona live

This attitude, painting cognitive enhancers with a broad and critical brush, is not helping things. Cognitive enhancers have the ability to improve persona lives and and society on the whole. But, there is a double standard with all things in healthcare. If you want to fix something, then by all means, take as many pills as you want and don't worry about changing lifestyle choices. Take insulin, for example. Or blood pressure medicine. Society may be harsh on folks that need these medicines, but these folks will have no problem getting the medicine. But, if we want to be better than "fixed", if we want to improve our cognitive performance, to do that in a safe physician guided manner, and have that translate to a better emotional, psychological, and economic future for themselves and their family. The economic benefits are real and shouldn't be limited to those in higher socioeconomic strata. This article shows sleep deprived surgeons benefit from modafinil: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21997802 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21997802 Modafinil Does Not Serve as a Reinforcer in Cocaine: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842996/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842996/ ... Ok, I won't make it one of those posts. But, do some research. We will all be better off if we can drop the FUD rhetoric and treat cognitive enhancers like we treat other drugs, something that can help and hurt. And we need to stop thinking of health care as something we do when something is broken, and start thinking about it as another tool in the toolbox that we can use to improve our lives.