Smart Drugs
Health & Wellbeing
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52m
If popping a pill could make you smarter, wittier and increase your memory would you take it? If you wee a surgeon working 20 hour days and you could take a pill take kept you performing brilliantly, would you? We are on the verge of a new kind of over-the-counter drug that could change fabric of our society, they're called Nootropics, or 'smart drugs,' and they're globally popular both at parties and in the workplace but we are only beginning to be aware of some of the side effects.
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