On speed the many lives of amphetamine /

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Main Author: Rasmussen, Nicolas, 1962-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • The new sensation
  • Benzedrine : the making of a modern medicine
  • Speed and total war
  • Bootleggers, beatniks, and benzedrine benders
  • A bromide for the atomic age
  • Amphetamine and the go-go years
  • Amphetamine's decline : from mental medicine to social disease
  • Fast forward : still on speed, 1971 to today.