Unlike what is often reported, the use by young people of so-called “smart drugs”, drugs that would help to improve cognitive skills, is very limited. At least in Germany. As the findings of recent research by Hochshul-Informatios-System. If it is true that a large number of students surveyed said they know or have heard of drugs such as Aricept, Ritalin and Modafinil, is even more true that the majority had never been used (88%), compared with 5% of regular users. A bad habit, then, that if there is, regards few people because only 1 in 3 said they know a friend who has used this type of “help” to withstand the long nights on the books, and only a small 12% admitted that he doped at least once during the cursus studiorum. The low appeal of this type of exciting stays in the reason confessed by the same “addicted” who, wrongly, hope to stem nervousness, tension and anxiety caused by school tests.
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