Smart pills 'inevitable'.HEALTHY people are increasingly taking drugs used to treat attention deficit disorder attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (ADD or ADHD)formerly hyperactivity Behavioral syndrome in children, whose major symptoms are inattention and distractibility, restlessness, inability to sit still, and difficulty concentrating on one thing for any and narcolespy to boost their brain power, doctors said yesterxday. Users, who have none of the conditions the drugs are intended to treat, are buying Ritalin and modafinil pills online as they are known "cognitive enhancers" - dubbed "Botox for the brain". The British Medical Association The British Medical Association (BMA) is the trade union to which the vast majority of British doctors belong. It is based in Tavistock Square in central London. It owns the "British Medical Journal". said: "The use of cognitive enhancers is expected to be inevitable." Questioning whether it was ethical to give the drugs to healthy people, it warned: "No drug is risk free." |
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