Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by soufron 2650 days ago
It's not "governments" that control drugs, but the FDA - in the US - and it's comprised of M.D.
1 comments

Do M.D.s generally recognize modafinil as less safe than caffeine and alcohol? It seems unlikely to me that the political will exists in the US to schedule either, regardless of what doctors actually think.

My claim is that no research exists that argues that modafinil is more dangerous than caffeine. (I'm not 100% sure about this claim, and it's easily debunkable. And for what it's worth I take caffeine and have never taken modafinil.)