Everything You Need to know About Smart Drugs

The use of cognitive enhancers is exploding. To gain a mental edge brain boosting supplements and smart drugs are used increasingly by the scientists, students and entrepreneurs. If you want to increase your productivity, alertness, and ability to work more and need to remember a lot of things, you should consider them too.  But your brain is your most valuable asset, and therefore you should come about all the necessary points before using any cognitive enhancer. During an overlap all neuroenhancers can be divided into three groups based on how they are sourced and processed. Here we’ll mention about few of the most popular and effective cognitive enhancers before you indulge yourself with one of its course.

Smart drugs or cognitive enhancers are made for improving mental abilities like alertness, focus, learning, attention etc. The people who are in hardship to get a cognitive edge are the best users of it. Though they prescription medicines, it is not hard to get them without having it.

Popular Smart Drugs:

Modafinil, Ritalin, Adderall, Piracetam are some of the categorical divisions of the smart drugs. Doctors prescribe the medicines according to the symptoms and mental strength of the patients. Obstructive sleep apnea, shift work disorder, narcolepsy are the main treatment fields of Modafinil. Though it is the only medically approved drug, its legal status varies in different countries. It is a prescription medicine in the UWS, but you can easily found the drug in the online stores. Pirecatam belongs to a group of cognitive enhancers called racetams. The working of racetam is not fully understood till now. Protecting the brain from oxidative stress and by improving the function of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine the medicine enhances the workings of the brain cell membrane. But it is only a theoretical output. This medicine is considered as the first invented nootropic. Ritalin and Adderall work by increasing levels of the neurotransmitters dopamine or norepinephrine.

Warnings:

There is still confusion whether Smart drugs or its metabolites are expelled in human milk. As because many drugs are excreted in breast milk, caution should be exercised when smart drug is exerted to a nursing woman. In Australia, in a clinical trial, the effects of Modafinil withdrawal were supervised following 9 weeks of its use. At that time no withdrawal symptoms were reported with the pill during 14 days of observation, rather sleepiness returned in narcoleptic patients. Overdose of these smart drugs may be lethal. Often the symptoms most accompanying Modafinil or Pirecatam pill overdose, single or in combination with other drugs have included the disorders, for it works in the central nervous system, as above mentioned.

How to use the smart drugs:

The patients who are using it to combat with shift work disorder may take it one hour before the shift. If your work shift is not regular on the same time, you should talk to your doctor about next steps. Nootropics has a tendency of habit forming. So, do not exceed the recommended dosage and do not take it more often than advised by your doctor.

While using the smart drugs, look out carefully for any notable changes in your physical condition. In the case of any side effects, immediately notify your doctor. Patients who are using this medicine to treat narcolepsy should take one pill in the morning and the effects will last all day long.

Precautions related to smart drugs:

The doctor should suggest patients not to change their previous behavior except potentially dangerous activities like driving, operating machinery or the activities that need appropriate levels of wakefulness. You should follow the suggestion unless treatment with any of the smart drugs show to generate levels of wakefulness that permits such activities. Patients should bring in notice to their physician if they become pregnant or want to become pregnant during medication.