This article is a few months old, but I ran across it and didn't remember it being discussed here, so thought I'd post.

"The safe party drug"? I haven't read anything about modafinil being used as a "party drug" in the sense that cocaine or mdma might be used.

This seems like a very poorly written article... and there were no links to the research (or no obvious links).

"Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and co-author of the new study" - conflict of interest?, since her institutional affiliation benefits from fear-mongering about "addictions".

Also, they didn't actually test for addiction; they tested for a biochemical/neurotransmitter condition which is somewhat correlated with reports of addiction. At least according to the article.

A blog criticism of the study based on the paper that appeared in JAMA. Or at least, the summary thereof.

http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2009/03/effect_of_mod...