Meanwhile, in Russia they're making all kinds of smart drugs that work way better than the ones in the study: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/16/an-iron-curt

Meanwhile, in Russia they're making all kinds of smart drugs that work way better than the ones in the study: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/16/an-iron-curtain-has-descended-upon-psychopharmacology/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/16/an-iron-curtain-has-de... Piracetam was also developed in Romania in the 60s. I don't like communism or anything, but the complete ignorance of the U.S medical system about drugs developed outside the United States that are now out of patent is just a tragedy. Luckily, in the 80s and 90s AIDS patients lobbied to let foreign drugs be imported because many of them worked better than the domestically developed AIDS drugs. What's weird is illegal drugs are vastly more popular and studied in the U.S, with the recent hallucinogen microdosing trend, than drugs that have been used safely for decades overseas.