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Sort Your Brain Out: Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More
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Sort Your Brain Out: Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More

by Jack Lewis, Adrian Webster
May 2014
Beginner
216 pages
4h 2m
English
Capstone
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“Smart” Drugs

Everyone's on drugs!

Do you numb the pain of a headache with aspirin, paracetamol or ibuprofen? When you have a sore throat, do you pop into a shop and buy throat lozenges? Do you like to give yourself a bit of a boost each day with a cup of coffee or maybe you prefer tea as your morning kick start? Perhaps you like to unwind in the evening with a glass or two of alcohol? Possibly you enjoy smoking tobacco or even cannabis?

Whilst the last of these is broadly considered a drug due to its (il-)legal status in many countries, it is no more or less a drug from the perspective of science than all the aforementioned chemical substances that many of us routinely take to improve the way we feel or perform.

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