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What would Nietzsche think about modern day medicine and drugs? (Everything from ibuprofen, to meds for bipolar/schizophrenia, to marijuana, to the "Limitless" movie drug... how do these substances contribute to the Übermensch?

Last semester in Ethics I asked my philosophy professor what Nietzsche would have thought about the drug in the movie "Limitless," you know, the one where the guy gets a drug that makes him amazing at all this stuff, super smart / motivated, etc. She said she honestly wasn't sure, because on one hand, it's man made, a "creation," but also could help develop the Übermensch.

So this semester, I have bioethics with the same professor, and I decided for my extra credit project to really analyze this question I asked a while ago. Here's some ideas I have, but please correct me where I'm wrong, and feel free to offer opinions, passages, quotes, etc. I really want to go all out on this. I've only read The Gay Science and half of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

* I know Nietzsche used some type of opiate to get rid of the incredible pains (stomach issues/headaches...), so I'm *assuming* Nietzsche would have been okay with taking medicine that helped cure illness. I also know he took some type of sleeping drug that helped him sleep.

* I know he was clearly against alcohol from his famous quote... right? Or was he just against the abuse of alcohol when it came to avoid suffering?

* What the hell would he think of drugs that better you? Like steroids, the Limitless movie drug, speed (in cases like Jack Kerouac abusing benzadrine to write his famous novel in two weeks)...?
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Neitzsche seems more concerned with people’s motivations than with their overt behavior. Especially their unconscious motivations. For instance, he negatively evaluates Christian morality on the grounds that it is an expression of deep-seated cruelty, self-hatred, and inappropriate pity. 

Given this, Nietzsche would likely be interested in why people are taking these drugs and whether the motivations are healthy or rather symptoms of decline. This would probably differ in a lot of individual cases.