Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furniture, later discovered that only one bride in three is buying her furniture now. But babies come just the same. So the demand for carriages, strollers, bassinets, etc., is terrific-the supply small. On the other side of the store, row after row of radios and refrigerators are a drug on the market, partly because consumers bought so many of them last year. (July refrigerator sales in New York City stores plummeted 88% below last year...
...railroadman should be allowed to work within one or two weeks after treatment with any drug of the sulfa group, warns the Association of American Railroads. These drugs often befuddle the mind, impair judgment. Sulfa befuddlement has caused at least one train wreck...
...mysterious "pep-pills" long-rumored in use by the Nazi army have been tentatively identified. They are probably benzedrine sulfate-a drug ten times as potent as caffeine and often used by U.S. college students (without regard to the harmful aftereffects on their nerves) to supercharge them through cram-sessions and finals. This is the conclusion of Gordon Alles and George Feigen of Cal Tech, who have been studying antifatigue drugs for years. The U.S. is not officially supplying its armed forces with such pills, although the British use them. So far as Dr. Alles knows, no pep-pills have...
...days' observation usually uncovers high blood pressure induced by benzedrine sulfate, low blood pressure induced by thyroid extract and other drug-induced disorders. In 1918 an A.E.F. hospital had an entire ward full of sufferers from a mysterious, persistent diarrhea. An observer camouflaged as another patient discovered that all the diarrhetics were bribing a night orderly to steal purgatives for them...
Others are taking an involuntary cure. Reason: Due to the dope shortage, dope adulteration in the last few years has reached a point where most of the heroin peddled in the U.S. is 98% milk sugar. This ersatz heroin is slowly working a cure on many drug addicts without their knowing...