On speed : the many lives of amphetamine / / Nicolas Rasmussen.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 352 p., [38] p. of plates :; ill. |
| Notes: | Errata slip inserted. |
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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.