Safety concerns raised over popular wakefulness drug (modafinil)

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1885825,00.html

by adamhowell • 17 years ago

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adamhowell• 17 years ago

This article is a few months old, but I ran across it and didn't remember it being discussed here, so thought I'd post.

billswift• 17 years ago

"Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and co-author of the new study" - conflict of interest?, since her institutional affiliation benefits from fear-mongering about "addictions".

Also, they didn't actually test for addiction; they tested for a biochemical/neurotransmitter condition which is somewhat correlated with reports of addiction. At least according to the article.

HalcyonMuse• 17 years ago

"The safe party drug"? I haven't read anything about modafinil being used as a "party drug" in the sense that cocaine or mdma might be used.

This seems like a very poorly written article... and there were no links to the research (or no obvious links).

Saavedro• 17 years ago

A blog criticism of the study based on the paper that appeared in JAMA. Or at least, the summary thereof.

http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2009/03/effect_of_mod...

Safety concerns raised over popular wakefulness drug (modafinil)

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