Argumentative Essay On Brain Enhancement

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In the article of Kevin Roose, he said that it is 3 post meridiem, and he is crushing to his email inbox. At this time of the day, he is typically struggling to stave off the post lunch slowdown by downing another cup of coffee or two. But today, message after message is flying off his fingertips effortlessly- work email, personal email, digital errands. He is in the zone, and for this burst of late afternoon productivity, he might have brain enhancement drugs to thank. Brain enhancing drugs are used to maximize mental capabilities. They are mostly referred to as “smart drugs” and they are allegedly used to improved an individual’s memory, attention, focus, and other cognitives abilities. There are many common enhancement drugs which are market …show more content…

With handful of benefits, everyone want to be more focus, productive, successful, and this has led to the growing demand for brain enhancing drugs. As the drugs increased, we should consider whether to live in a society where we embrace enhancement as routine. Everything in life has a trade-off, if one thing increases, the other decreases or vice versa. In this topic “brain enhancement drugs, there is an existing controversy between advantages and disadvantages. Some of the controversy are revolving around safety, cheating, inequality, etc...Safety is the biggest concern in United States. Greenwood said in the United States of America they have restricted use of the enhancement to only those prescribed to, which a step towards the right direction considering that they may do more harm than good to those who may not necessarily need them. Greenwood’ article suggests that the drugs could possibly bring in undesirable side effect in term of medical aspect rather than increase the brain function. In the article “Nootropics Side Effects for Beginners”, it said that for those who are taking nootropics, some of the compounds that are in nootropics can be very harsh on your body. They are not natural substances and are not tolerated that well in some cases. Headaches or other impacts on your brain could be a result from consuming enhancement drugs. Nootropics focus on brain functioning, but other interaction might occur on the body system other than the brain. Overall health could have a big impact. Second biggest concern in United States is a tendency to misuse, People tended to maximally exploit the benefit of the enhancement drugs which lead to drug misuse, or overdoses. Overdosing is extremely dangerous. In the research

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