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	How smart are 'smart drugs'?

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Fleur Britten
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Is your memory so perforated that you fear early-onset Alzheimer’s? Your
attention so centrifugal that you’ve self-diagnosed attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? Perhaps you don’t have time to sleep, or
maybe you would just like to function as a super-you. The sci-fi solution we
have all been waiting for is already here, and it’s circulating in student
unions and school. These days, the kids are all on “smart drugs”.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article4344301.ece">A group of pharmaceuticals designed for sufferers of narcolepsy, Alzheimer’s
and ADHD, smart drugs are increasingly being used “off label” (unsupervised,
as a lifestyle choice) by healthy people, who procure them from online
pharmacies, friendly physicians and illicit prescription sales.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article4344301.ece"> Students are rejoicing and cramming for exams with
smart-drug- fuelled all-nighters.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6EE52433-9717-4C18-A906-CC8B110266D2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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