Maybe we should just take psychotropic drugs, eh?
December 27th 2008 19:35
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Wouldn't it be a lot easier if we simply gave into the demands of modern living and just swallowed a pill?
That's what psychotropic drugs are all about, aren't they?
No, it's not really, I'm afraid you've got that all wrong.
Those drugs are intended for the seriously ill, who need them for such conditions as serious neurological impairments with their attendant pathologies and who really do need such drugs to survive. They are generally very expensive and fortunately most people do not feel comfortable with the notion, pill poppers and drug takers excepted.
There are those of us amongst the silent majority who look for real everyday solutions to problems rather than just escaping into a drug infused world.
Cognitive enhancement is what it is known as, students studying for exams, not wanting to face their own deficiences and even such people as Professors taking mind boosting drugs not meant for the everyday consumption by those who insist on remaining psychologically impaired and relieving their symptoms with the wrong substances or simplynot taking the advice from others, skilled and unskilled, who get on with life and handle it.
Remember the pot culture of Universities who encouraged the use of marijuana, claiming no downsides and now there is a whole generation of folks resorting to drug taking and pill popping, demanding a chemical solution to their own deficiencies and a lot of seriously harmed if not dead drug users which the simple 'pot' movement inspired.
Psychiatric institutions have them clamouring at the door and hospitals situated in the areas these people mostly frequent, need to stay on 'red alert' having a steady stream of them being admitted, often brought there by police and putting their staff, of all persuasions, at risk.
And now we want an easy fix for our memory problems when we are still placed to do something about such things for ourselves by simple life style changes, which have been shown to assist markedly with such everyday problems, and at earlier and earlier ages.
From the New York Times, guest writer, Judith Warner says:
As Americans, our default setting on matters of psychotropic drugs — particularly when it comes to medicating those who are not very ill — tends to be, as the psychiatrist Gerald Klerman called it in 1972, something akin to “pharmacological Calvinism.” People should suffer and endure, the thinking goes, accept what hard work and their God-given abilities bring them and hope for no more.
But Greely and his Nature co-authors suggest that such arguments are outdated and intellectually dishonest. We enhance our brain function all the time, they say — by drinking coffee, by eating nutritious food, by getting an education, even by getting a good night’s sleep. Taking brain-enhancing drugs should be viewed as just another step along that continuum, one that’s “morally equivalent” to such “other, more familiar, enhancements,” they write.
But Greely and his Nature co-authors suggest that such arguments are outdated and intellectually dishonest. We enhance our brain function all the time, they say — by drinking coffee, by eating nutritious food, by getting an education, even by getting a good night’s sleep. Taking brain-enhancing drugs should be viewed as just another step along that continuum, one that’s “morally equivalent” to such “other, more familiar, enhancements,” they write.
It's something to think about isn't it? with many being outraged by the pill popping stance so many are happy with, but 'thinking' people, and in this case it appears the majority, are not.
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The ripe old age many of our parents enjoyed is seriously at risk, sadly.