Posted by Molybdenum on June 6, 2008, at 20:21:06
In reply to Re: Ritalin (methylphenidate) vs Dextroamphetamine, posted by bleauberry on June 6, 2008, at 18:22:31
Thanks for the detailed thoughts bleauberry - really appreciate it.
I've spent hours researching the nootropics / smart drugs on the web. The trouble is that there's very little impartial or scientific data out there. Just a zillion anecdotals. Plus of course the blatantly biased advertisements and more annoyingly, the advertisements deceptively "posted" to forums as personal anecdotals.
I've tried to make notes about each one I've found but often find contradictory info on a med. So very hard to work out which to concentrate on. Some are too expensive for me, whereas Piracetam seems to be almost free...! As I said, CX717 sounds promising but of course, it's unavailable.
The other thing is that I'm in Australia and our version of the FDA is very quick to add any new drugs, precursors, isomers, etc to one of the schedules. This means that nearly everything with any shred of evidence to suggest it has a real pharmacological effect, gets put in the category of us needing a local doc's script to be able to legally import. And I don't feel like any legal hassles these days.
Last obstacle is the same one faced in any country where practising medicine carries a lot of liability issues: that it's difficult to find a doc that will prescribe something that's got the possibility of causing harm. Given the lack of scientific studies on some of the nootropics, that's a real prob too. :)
I will take you other suggestions on board too.
Thanks Again. :)
M.
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