It might have been the most cultured house-share of the 20th century. In 1940, WH Auden was living in Brooklyn Heights in a ...

During World War II, both Axis and Allied forces issued millions of stimulant pills to keep soldiers awake, alert, and marching for days without rest. Nazi Germany distributed over 35 million tablets ...

THE unquestioned value of benzedrine (phenyl-isopropylamine) in the treatment of nareolepsy has made it of interest to discover in what ways this drug might influence metabolic events in the nervous ...

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These drawbacks to self-destruction, as ticked off by Dorothy Parker, do not apply to an overdose of sleeping pills. In recent years the barbiturates have enjoyed alarming popularity as a painless ...

From the Psychiatric Clinic and Pathological Laboratory of the Boston State Hospital, Boston, Mass. Schube, Purcell G. — Assistant superintendent, Boston State Hospital. Raskin, Naomi — Pathologist, ...

Weight loss drugs have long occupied a complicated space in medicine—offering hope for those struggling with obesity while simultaneously sparking controversy due to side effects, misuse, and ...

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 take ...

Amphetamines—variously known as speed, ice, crystal, pep pills, Benzedrine, Dexedrine, Adderall, Ritalin, and countless other brand names—have played a persistent role in the pharmaceutical ...

Stories about drug use by Hitler and German forces during World War II have been widely told. What’s less well known is the Allied commanders’ embraced pharmacological “force enhancers” as well. By ...

From the Division of Psychiatric Research, Boston State Hospital, and aided by funds from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Works Progress Administration (Project ...