It sounds to me like something that's quite dangerious. Maybe it helps people with narcolepsy but maybe it will be another thing people abuse like amphetamines?

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dylan604 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It doesn't matter what it is, people somewhere will abuse it. Maybe doesn't need to be anywhere near the subject.

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subscribed 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Modafinil is available for ages, acts close to this (it's mentioned in the article), and I don't hear of people abusing it.

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projektfu 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It gets abused by people who just want to stay awake, but not in the sense of being a party drug. For example, by students, drivers, security officers, and politicians.

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subscribed an hour ago | parent [-]

It promotes wakefulness and (allegedly) concentration. It's not a magic or amphetamines, not sure how is that an "abuse"?

Do people drinking coffee in the morning *abuse* it?

	▲	projektfu an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Coffee isn't a Schedule IV controlled substance in the US. I'm using a pretty strict definition of abuse, which is just using medication outside of its indications, or when it isn't prescribed to you.

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ShinyLeftPad 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't know of anyone using it in the first place...

	▲	FeteCommuniste an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Apparently it's used by about 10% of UK university students, according to a survey: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40979-024-00174-3 I remember there being kind of a burst of articles about it on HN about ten or fifteen years ago, with a lot of commenters talking about their use of it.
	▲	subscribed an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's okay, they're elsewhere.

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engineer_22 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

looks like potential for abuse is low - people with normal orexin activity could even experience diminished capacity by these drugs