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Why students and professors are taking cognitive enhancers

Mention ‘drugs’ and ‘universities’ in the same sentence and you’re likely to think of wild student parties. But a Cambridge academic says one in five professors are also popping pills.Cognitive-enhancing pills, that is. John Humphrys talks to Fiona Measham, Professor of Criminology at Durham University.

First broadcast on Today, 30 May 2017.

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