Prevalence of Legal, Prescription, and Illegal Drugs Aiming at Cognitive Enhancement across Sociodemographic Groups in Germany
Prevalence of Legal, Prescription, and Illegal Drugs Aiming at Cognitive Enhancement across Sociodemographic Groups in Germany
Sebastian SattlerFloris van VeenFabian HasselhornLobna El TabeiUwe FuhrGuido Mehlkopa Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germanyb University of Cologne, Cologne, Germanyc Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montréal, Canadad Erfurt University, Erfurt, Germanye University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germanyf Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, Erfurt, GermanySebastian Sattler is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany and an associate member of the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit at the Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Canada. He is a sociologist by training, while his interdisciplinary research concentrates on sociology and social psychology. His research interests include criminology, drug misuse, sociological theory, the sociology of health, experimental methods, and large-scale surveys. His work has been published in journals including Scientific Reports, Deviant Behavior, Current Psychology, European Sociological Review, and PLOS ONE.Floris van Veen is a research assistant at the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences at Erfurt University. His research interests include risk research, criminology, quantitative methods, and drug use. His work has been published in journals such as Social Science Research, Deviant Behavior, Studies in Higher Education, and Journal of Drug Issues.Fabian Hasselhorn is a doctoral student in sociology at the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne, Germany and a research associate at Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. His research interests include criminology, drug misuse, action theory, experimental methods, and quantitative methods. His recent work on these topics has appeared in Social Science Research and Journal of Drug Issues.Lobna El Tabei is a medical doctor, specializing in internal medicine and diabetology. She previously worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Pharmacology at the University of Cologne where her pharmacological interests included pharmacokinetics. Other research activities were related to general medicine on diagnostics of deep venous thrombosis. Results were published in the Deutsche Ärzteblatt.Uwe Fuhr is a professor of pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital at the University of Cologne. He is a physician by training and with a specialization in Clinical Pharmacology. His research interests are focused on optimizing individual drug treatment: he develops and applies methods to describe and quantify covariates for pharmacological processes contributing to desired and adverse drug reactions in the individual patient. Such covariates include the genetic background of drug transporters and drug metabolizing enzymes, renal function, body mass descriptors, and concomitant medication. His work has been published in more than 200 original and review articles.Guido Mehlkop is a professor of empirical research methods at the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences at Erfurt University. His research interests include criminology, rational choice theory, methodology, and quantitative methods. He has written a monograph regarding the explanation of crime as a rational choice. His work has been published in journals including Criminology, Deviant Behavior, the Journal of Drug Issues, and Scientific Reports.