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And of the past. In WWI the germans had a new secret weapon that would make them invincible, called amphetamines. They did not work as well as initially hoped
by BMc2020 4y ago
And of the past. In WWI the germans had a new secret weapon that would make them invincible, called amphetamines.
They did not work as well as initially hoped.
- intrasight 4y agoCertainly of the past. Without the brain, there would be no war.
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoThey worked well enough to fend off Russian invasion for my people.
- nicbou 4y agoWorld war two. The Allies used them too.
- BMc2020 4y agoMy mistake, you are right. During World War One, the government provided cigarettes to soldiers to help ease boredom and reduce stress. Prior to the war, less than 0.5% of American people regularly consumed cigarettes. By the war’s end, approximately 14 million cigarettes were distributed daily. According to Lukasz Kamienski, a political science professor at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, and author of Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War, cocaine also became a drug of abuse on the frontlines. People turned to the drug to boost energy, combat fatigue, and reduce wartime anxiety. It gained popularity when the British army created a drug known as “Forced March,” a combination of cocaine and a cola nut extract. People then began to self-prescribe the drug as a wartime aid. Many of the soldiers’ wives and girlfriends sent packages of cocaine and heroin purchased from London pharmacists labeled as “useful presents for friends at the front” or sometimes “welcome presents for friends at the front.” https://recovery.org/addiction/wartime/ https://recovery.org/addiction/wartime/
- phasersout 4y agonot just soldiers.. everybody had a good time with amphies for a while there. I don't know if the problem got as big as oxycontin but it was severe.
- aliqot 4y agoAmphetamine and Methamphetamine still commonly prescribed in USA, mainly for folks in the HN demographic. You'd be surprised.
- hirvi74 4y agoI'm one, and I wish they worked as well for me as people in this comment chain are making them seem.
- seba_dos1 4y agoNot just in USA. For folks with AD(H)D it's being prescribed to it is, however, barely useful for "having a good time" (unless you count having some kind of predictability on how you focus on tasks to be "a good time", which I guess works for its literal meaning).
- salawat 4y agoBe nice if it didn't ball and chain you to a particular state...
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- sneak 4y agoHow do you think Google got built?