Nicolas Rasmussen - On Speed

How were the amphetamines discovered? Who first marketed these chemicals as medicines? How was the medical profession persuaded to prescribe them – as the first ‘antidepressants’? How many people in the 1950s and 1960s became addicted to the amphetamines so commonly prescribed by their doctors, both as diet pills and antidepressants? And, most important, how come Americans still can't live without their speed, more than 60 years after other countries started banning the drugs as medicines because they cause addiction and psychosis?

On Speed answers these questions. This book is the first history of the amphetamines based on unpublished inside documents from the drug companies, the government officials, and the doctors who made amphetamine into the blockbuster medicine – and disastrously popular, addictive drug of abuse – that defined the twentieth century.

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