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Performance enhancing drugs reach academia

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The journal Nature surveyed the use of a number of drugs that enhance mental performance. The group of over 1,400 respondents were heavily biased towards US-based researchers, who accounted for 70 percent of the results. Almost 35 percent of them have taken Ritalin, Provigil, or beta blockers, and 60 percent of those were taking the drugs specifically for improving mental capacity instead of medical reasons.
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