AHS Views

A recent news article says that students may need to be drug tested during exams -  they’re talking about the drugs recently hailed by surveyed scientists as enhancing focus. One scientist even justified it by saying that, as a scientist, his job is to serve humanity and he’ll do anything he has to to make sure he does that job as well as possible. Yeah, right. Influence a bunch of kids to take drugs - that’s really serving humanity. I’d be inclined to get this guy some addiction help.

Taking drugs in school to enhance focus and concentration is just one more off-shoot of the prescription drug epidemic that is sweeping America.

There used to be a sense of pride in being able to excel on your own steam. Or even be able to handle life on your own steam - not head for the bottle or the medicine cabinet when things got a little rough. Are those days over? 

Just like the athlete who refuses to take drugs and is proud that his accomplishments are not aided by a force other than his own, academics should also use their own brain power - not that of a drug. Why is it not okay for an athlete to take performance-enhancing drugs when it seems to be perfectly okay for a scientist?

In any case, one thing is certain, more drugs equals more need for addiction help services. Whatever the benefits of these drugs, they are also addictive.