Maybe I’m being a prude here, but if there’s one thing that has always set my teeth on edge about rock culture, it’s the romanticisation of drug addiction. I know this is nothing new. Ever since ...

Benzedrine was supposed to be the pep in the German Army’s pep pills (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942),* and is indubitably the drug that causes periodic tantrums among college deans when cramming students ...

From the Neurological Unit, Boston City Hospital, and the Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School. This study was aided by a grant from the Smith, Kline and French Laboratories, Philadelphia.