Expert Feels Healthy People Should be Allowed to Take Ritalin

by Rajashri on  June 21, 2009 at 9:56 AM Drug News
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He questioned whether children at top schools would take Ritalin in "epidemic proportions" and if people such as pilots, police officers and on-call doctors would be pressurised into taking the drug to perform better.

"Endorsing the legal non-therapeutic use of methyphenidate or other cognitive enhancers now is premature. The efficacy and risks of enhancers in healthy people needs to be researched adequately and this information needs to be disseminated broadly. Until such preparations are made, it is not acceptable to recommend that healthy people take drugs to enhance performance," Chatterjee said.

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