"You know who else was addicted to drugs?"

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Fascinating article in the Guardian talking to a guy who's written a book about drugs in Nazi Germany, because apparently there was a whole lot of oxycodone and methamphetamines going around there. (I am suddenly reminded of the Val Kilmer movie, "Salton Sea", where there's an expository montage about meth that includes noting how it was heavily used in WWII.)

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Some early Heinlein stories talk of amphetamines to keep you going during hard times, but dangerous.

And my brother, in the Army during the 80s, noted that the MREs had packs of high-caffeine coffee and cocoa which were called "amphicoffee".