Benzedrine was the first brand of amphetamine marketed in the United States in the 1930s. Its use soon took off. Doctors prescribed it for conditions ranging from depression to narcolepsy. The drug’s ...

The bottle of multivitamins at left were typical of the ways Americans became addicted to amphetamines. AP Photo/Al Grillo Susanna McBee walked into the office of a doctor she’d never met before, ...

Benzedrine was supposed to be the pep in the German Army’s pep pills (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942),* and is indubitably the drug that causes periodic tantrums among college deans when cramming students take ...

Someone really needs to write a history of the influence of Benzedrine on American culture. For a period of about twenty years, from the 1930s to the 1950s, a good bit of American artistic and ...

For this edition of Flashback Friday, we’re bringing you an excerpt from The Drug User by legendary drug aficionado, Herbert Huncke, originally published in the October, 1991 edition of High Times.

These drawbacks to self-destruction, as ticked off by Dorothy Parker, do not apply to an overdose of sleeping pills. In recent years the barbiturates have enjoyed alarming popularity as a painless ...

John Hunt, the leader of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition, was an exceptional strategist and logician. When the Swiss attempts to climb Everest in 1952 failed, he used their experience to ...

Sleep has often been considered the enemy of America’s armed forces, something to be conquered with caffeine, prescription drugs, or willpower. Now that may be changing. The Pentagon released a report ...