Report highlights impact of future brain drugs on society

From the University of Cambridge:

22 May 2008

A report by the Academy of Medical Sciences which was led by Sir Gabriel Horn FRS FRCP, Emeritus Professor of Zoology at the University states that an increasing number and variety of psychoactive drugs - drugs that act on the brain - will emerge over the next few decades.

Some drugs could bring new treatments for addiction and mental ill health, but others could also increase the burden of drug misuse.

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Thanks go to John Devlin for bringing this article to my attention.