Medical practitioners and parents are severely criticizing the lifestyle followed by some high school and undergraduate students to make use brain steroids or neuro enhancers for staying ahead of the rest at educational and sport levels.

The main aim of steroid abuse by youth of today is to do whatever it takes to sustain and fulfil physical, emotional, financial, and psychological demands.

From SMScollegian.com:

The ethical arguments on both sides for and against have some valid points. Those for their use say it is no different than using a chemical to enhance the mind like using caffeine to stay awake, and they discredit the term “brain-steroids” because they say that implies using artificial means to increase brain-power, instead claiming it just maximizes the potential already present within the mind. Those against it equate it with cheating saying that taking it before a test is like athletes doping before a game.

The most interesting point was those concerned that in the future parents who want their children to have any edge possible might encourage them to take neuro-enhancers, or adults could feel pressured to maximize output at work and earn more money. This may be possible, because looking back at high school, it was hard not to envy the students who partied every weekend, maintained a 4.0 GPA, took AP classes, played a sport and had their choice of Ivy League schools. If the future involves the same pressures we experience today to succeed, feeling the need to take these neuro-enhancers further emphasizes that pressure to work so hard and not sleep enough. Not every student can balance all these factors and still do their best.

It is high time that youth of today gets educated about abusing steroids so that they can be able to live up to their own expectations and do not ruin their life.