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Inside Health: Drug Driving; End of Life Care; Smart Drugs

24/02/2015

Drug Driving; End of Life Care; Smart Drugs

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, Drug Driving; End of Life Care; Smart Drugs

New drug-driving laws include some medications, end of life care and smart drugs.

Dr Mark Porter examines health issues, including the new drug-driving legislation that will apply to some medications. Plus end-of-life care and the use of smart drugs by students.

New drug-driving legislation which comes into force next week applies to some medicines too. Particularly morphine based painkillers taken by hundreds of thousands of people in the UK, many of whom could inadvertently find themselves on the wrong side of the law.

And planning for a good death - an Inside Health listener says he believes it's better to die earlier from heart disease than go on to develop cancer later in life. Is he right?

Plus as many as 1 in 10 university students in the UK are now thought to be dabbling with smart drugs to help them revise and boost exam performance. Inside Health talks to leading experts about cognitive enhancers.

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