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It's actually not too expensive, and pretty easy to find online from overseas (which is legal, I understand, so long as you're importing personal-use quantities

It's actually not too expensive, and pretty easy to find online from overseas (which is legal, I understand, so long as you're importing personal-use quantities i.e. 3 mo supply or less) Doesn't really make you smarter, that's pretty hyperbolic, but will definitely stave off some of that 'brain fog' that comes about after lunch / towards the end of the day. And being able to be productive an extra eight hours or so a week is pretty priceless.

rms 20y ago
In the USA, I'm almost positive it is only legal to import if you already have a valid prescription for it. Even then, customs can seize it if they want. A study showed that "Modafinil significantly reduced error rates in the long delay condition of the visuo-spatial task and in the manipulation conditions." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15221200&dopt=Abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15221200&dopt=Abstract Maybe it doesn't make you smarter, but it makes your brain function better for some very specific memory tasks. I think that such a benefit would be broader than the number recall tasks from the study.