Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies

Substituted amphetamines were already very popular in the 1950s.

Methamphetamine was invented in Germany in 1937 and the German military at the time was very quick to adopt its use.

An army of tweakers. I don't think that this aspect of the War and the Holocaust are discussed enough. Certainly no excuse, but it is very interesting.

> Chronic Meth users have deficits in memory and executive functioning as well as higher rates of anxiety, depression, and most notably psychosis. [0]

In more recent times of horror:

> After the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria, large stockpiles of the illicit drug captagon have reportedly been uncovered.

> The stockpiles, found by Syrian rebels, are believed to be linked to al-Assad military headquarters, implicating the fallen regime in the drug’s manufacture and distribution. [1]

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3764482/

[1] https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-drug-captagon-and-ho...