potentialities

...Yes, I do see what you mean. (I've now read the article--didn't know it was available for reading!) I guess it just doesn't usually occur to me that people who don't need drugs would want to take them anyway--but of course that's what goes on every day already, with illegal drugs like ecstasy and, as they say, misappropriated prescription drugs like Ritalin. Can't but hope these people get what's coming to them in terms of negative and/or unanticipated side effects. Mess with your biochemistry at your peril, overambitious social climbers!; the human animal is more delicate than you imagine. The whole thing reeks of hubris.

I feel like many people--not necessarily the readers of Popular Science, but still--do connect psychiatric drugs with unnecessary 'brain enhancement'. Witness Thomas Szasz, whose books I keep running into at the library where I work. *sigh*
It's a rum business, all of it, but thank you for putting up with my nattering. :I