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Psychopharm Going 'Mainstream' In Schools?
PizzaFace writes "Back in the day, college was a place where a lot of kids tried recreational drugs. Now the world's more competitive, psychopharmaceuticals are better targeted, and millions of students are routinely using drugs to work better and longer. Stimulants developed for attention deficit and narcolepsy are giving mentally healthy students an edge like athletes get from steroids or human growth hormone. These psychotropics seem fairly safe, but should they be banned in the interest of fairness, perhaps with enforcement by urine tests before exams? Or do we tell our kids that, if they want to compete in this brave new world, they better find some Adderall and jack their brains up like their classmates'." If college students are doing it, how many programmers are? What say you?
Who needs discipline and work ethics when you have pills? Post babyboom American students became the weakest link in our society, not to mention ever increasing cost of schooling, depleting higher academic standards, failing teachers to educational system, disappearing stable family environment, etc.
But lets put aside those minor problems. Things like stress from reading too many books, peer pressure to have sex and drink alcohol, debilitating attention deficit syndrome, and bad eye sight, what obsticles must you go through these days?!?! The horror!
What pills won't give you is will, discipline and work ethics. That separates Franklin D. Roosevelt from Adolf Hitler. I'm not calling anyone Nazi here, but hopefully you know what I mean.
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
A drug is a drug is a drug. If Novartis could produce recreational drugs that the FDA would approve, they would. Safe recreational drugs are not being held back by pharmaceutical companies, they are being held back by the government. Pharmaceutical companies would like nothing more then to sell you non-addictive recreational drug that has side effects that are less then alcohol at your local liquore store. The government on the other hand abhors the thought of people taking any drugs other then the ones already legal (caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, McDonalds, exc).
Could you imagine how terrible it would be if we had no war on drugs? God forbid we utterly destroy the source of income for all criminal gangs and organized crime. God forbid we have recreational drugs that don't come with the risk of contamination, improper dosages, and the risk of federal agents or criminals gunning you down. No, we must protect our war on drugs. If we didn't have a war on drugs, how would we will our prisons and fund gangs?