I'm angry, testy, hyperfocused and I don't want to be bothered

Nevertheless, this blog is, at least, 50% clean (Brain enhancement is wrong, right?):

... an era of doping may be looming in academia, and it has ignited a debate about policy and ethics that in some ways echoes the national controversy over performance enhancement accusations against elite athletes like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.

In a recent commentary in the journal Nature, two Cambridge University researchers reported that about a dozen of their colleagues had admitted to regular use of prescription drugs like Adderall, a stimulant, and Provigil, which promotes wakefulness, to improve their academic performance. The former is approved to treat attention deficit disorder, the latter narcolepsy, and both are considered more effective, and more widely available, than the drugs circulating in dorms a generation ago.

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Jeffrey White, a graduate student in cell biology who has attended several institutions, said that those numbers sounded about right. “You can usually tell who’s using them because they can be angry, testy, hyperfocused, they don’t want to be bothered,” he said.

I'm happy to proclaim that the shorter, more BMI'd environmental economics blog contributor is prescription drug clean. The strongest drugs employed are hot coffee and cold beer.

Also, drugs were circulating in dorms a generation ago? I wish someone had told me that ...

Hat tip: TM

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[Ironman]

"You can usually tell who's using them because they can be angry, testy, hyperfocused, they don't want to be bothered"

I'm confused. Just how are we supposed to tell these people apart from the usual run-of-the-mill a$$h@!& (Tim's spelling, not mine) academic?