I'm now officially out of the closet... no, not that closet, the other one, about taking cognition enhancer drugs: The Times, February 27, 2010: Bring 'smart drugs' out of the closet, experts urge Government (written by Lucy Bannerman).
Overall, the problem set we have today with cognition enhancers seems to be:
Basically we have a situation here were we have use of enhancers that can be unnecessarily wasteful or harmful. This is because there is not much consumer information, medical oversight, legal access (grey medical markets are problematic), product development, or research for coming up with good and safe enhancers. The reason for this lack is that the use is stigmatized, seen as irrelevant or immoral, and there is little money or political capital in changing the situation.
I think this should and can be changed. We need to get people to discuss how they fit enhancers into their personal and medical lives. We need to find out what actually works and what the price is. We need to discuss what we want to use medicine for in this century, and how we want to set up the payment system.
Now I need another cup of tea.
Posted by Anders3 at February 28, 2010 02:16 PM