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Relevant. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/11380891/Churchills-drinking-was-one-thing-but-what-about-his-drug-taking.html https://www.telegraph

• philwelch 8y ago
  As shocking as Churchill's apparent regimen of barbiturates and amphetamines might seem, aside from the transition for barbiturates to benzos (which the article mentions), that's not too different from some of the more common psychiatric medications prescribed today. Sure, there's more of a formalized mental health process, where you have to be diagnosed with "anxiety" or "ADD", but that's largely because we now have, perhaps, a more systemic understanding of what conditions can be effectively treated this way. To name another well-known user of prescription stimulants, Paul Erdos seems like a perfect example of someone with adult ADD decades before adult ADD was recognized as a real condition.