Vollmer was known for her sharp intellect and rhetorical skill, and helped to hone the Beats’ conceptual framework via long nights of Benzedrine-fueled conversation and art critique. But while Joan ...

An early Big Pharma magic-bullet chemical cure for depression was the amphetamine Benzedrine, first marketed in the 1930s by the drug company Smith, Kline, and French; followed by other ...

Vollmer was known for her sharp intellect and rhetorical skill, and helped to hone the Beats’ conceptual framework via long nights of Benzedrine-fueled conversation and art critique. But while ...

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1994), which consists of a true/false 49-item questionnaire, it is a validated instrument for determining subjective drug effects including five subscales: PCAG (pentobarbital-chlorpromazine-alcohol ...

Physiologist Keys flatly dismisses such appetite depressants as the amphetamines (Benzedrine, Dexedrine) as dangerous “crutches for a weak will.” Keys has no such objections to Metrecal, ...

For alcohol, though commonly so considered, is not, like caffeine or the several members of the amphetamine coterie (Benzedrine, Dexedrine, Methedrine), a stimulant. It is a depressant ...

“It said: ‘Mick Mars comes out to the front of the stage with his little troll body,’” he recalls. Other people might have been offended by that, but not the guitarist. “I thought ...