[stephenjohnbanker]

until they drop dead of a heart attack.

[ClearCase_guy]

“At that point, it was like, ‘Holy crap, this stuff can be very powerful,’ ” Andrew told the Observer.

Based on the vocabulary, I'm wondering if Marie Harf is a heavy user.

(probably not)

[Mr. K]

how do you get this stuff?
is it illegal? or available with a prescription?

[nascarnation]

I’ve heard that Adderall is referred to as the “breakfast of champions” by students at top grad schools.

Although I have no personal connection to verify it.

[I want the USA back]

“happy, alert, firing on all cylinders, oblivious to any fatigue”
How long will it last without serious consequences.

[goseminoles]

I want some..

[JoeFromSidney]

Get enough sleep and you probably don't need the stuff.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The amount of studying, homework, internships, etc that students in certain disciplines (eg engineering) have to put in to get good grades is almost insane. It's exacerbated by the requirements colleges put on them to take crap like “core diversity” and “social understanding” courses that have no basis in their major. Imagine how frustrating it is to be studying engineering and having to waste precious time on essays and social studies about gay tiger shrimp and Shakespearean albino empowerment.

[Stentor]

Very old news. This was a phase in the mid 90s. Modafinil is the one about which I’ve anything negative to say. There’s a crash associated with it.

[capt. norm]

This will give my age away but back when I was in college (that later became Iowa State University) you could buy "bennies" (Benzedrine) over the counter. Later came meth, etc. and various stronger incarnations that led to their becoming illegal.

Never tried any as I was seeing what it had done to others and wanted no part of it.

[headstamp 2]

Is this like the “Prevagen” stuff they are hawking on TV?

[vpintheak]

“I want a New Drug” Huey Lewis and the News

[dfwgator]

Nothing compared to these drugs I’ve been taking, since I got on them, my productivity has skyrocketed. Normally I wouldn’t recommend taking drugs, but you try these if you can get them.

They’re called, “Placebos.’

[maine-iac7]

For later

[catnipman]

I guess just chain smoking cigarettes and drinking bottem-less cups of coffee aren’t hacking it anymore.

[Bob434]

ive been taking it for awhile ‘sulbutiamine’ or soemthign like that- I have fibromyalgian and bad ‘brain fog’ that makes it very hard to concentrate and even think (think of having a bad flu where you just sit around like a zombie- can’t think straight- )

I think it’s working- hard to tell- I seem to be aBLe to maintain focus better-

As for health concerns about nootropics- in my case I feel “Meh who cares!” But healthy people should look into the safety concerns before trying these

There are many different kinds of nootropics- some more powerful, some pretty benign- Coffee is a ‘nootropic’- and we do know there are both health risks and benefits with coffee- so any nootropic has potential issues with htem

[TigersEye]

These pharmaceutical chemo-witches brews are legal but Kava Kava is banned. How could we ever make it without Big Brother controlling what we can and can’t have?

[ourworldawry]

These are the people that most companies will hire FIRST, before they hire someone that actually HAS good sense...which is exactly why we’ve got what we’ve got, TODAY. Hahaha. O foolish people.