A review on the future of work: performance-enhancing drugs

Introduction

The use of drugs for non-medical reasons as cognitive enhancers is starting to spread and become normalised among students and certain groups of workers. In the context of increasingly competitive society and working environment the use of these performance-enhancing drugs is expected to grow in the future while the long-term consequences are still unknown.

What are performance-enhancing drugs?

‘Cognitive-enhancing drugs’ are pharmaceutical substances claimed to improve mental performance, such as focus, concentration, memory or motivation. More broadly, ‘performance-enhancing drugs’ also include claims to improve the acquisition of…