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DAK health report Brain doping in the job is increasing
For many workers in Germany, the burden they have been exposed to in the job has greatly increased in the past few years. The current health report of the DAK Health shows that many working people take medication to be more efficient in the workplace or reduce stress.
Medicines to be more efficient
Workload and stress have greatly increased for many working people in Germany. In Bavaria alone, 117,000 employees regularly use prescription drugs to perform better in the workplace or to reduce stress. This emerges from the current DAK Health Report 2015, which this year focuses on the topic of doping in the workplace. As the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" (SZ) writes, more than 900,000 people in the Free State have taken stimulants or mood-enhancing medicines once to be fit for the job.
Most of Bavaria has experience in brain doping
Although the study is based on the data of citizens who are covered by health insurance at DAK, the study also allows conclusions to be drawn about the country-wide situation. 70.9 percent of Bavarians therefore have experience in brain doping. According to a spokesman for the health insurance company, "The trigger for the pill is usually high pressure to perform as well as stress and overwork." Men were more likely to use performance-enhancing agents such as pacemakers or methylphenidate supplements. The latter are more commonly known by the trade name "Ritalin," a drug prescribed for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Women take mood enhancers
Women, on the other hand, would use mood-lifting agents more often. Including antidepressants. So drugs that are actually prescribed for the treatment of diseases. In the field of brain doping there are now according to the DAK in the regulations "a significant gray area". Such drugs would be prescribed often without a corresponding diagnosis. Health experts warn that the drugs can not only make dependent, but sometimes associated with enormous health hazards.
Harmful drugs
Thus, the various anti-depressants or antidepressants may cause side effects such as high blood pressure, anxiety, dizziness, headache, sleep disorders or dangerous cardiac arrhythmias such as palpitations or heart stumbling. In addition, according to the medical profession, antidepressants have no benefit in the absence of depression. In addition, there is a risk of addiction in many medications and in some cases even increases the risk of suicide. (Ad)
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