Smart Pills

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Smart Pills
      

In response to the flood of prescription brain stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall on college campuses, a group of academics from Stanford, Harvard, Cambridge, Penn, and other schools say the time has come to allow such drugs to be prescribed to healthy people for "cognitive enhancement."

In a commentary published last month in Nature, they argue that such drugs, as well as future therapies like brain chips, should be viewed no differently than communications technologies or good sleep habits.

They also acknowledge but reject some of the more common ethical arguments that have been made against the prescription of smart pills.
         

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