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 ...

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 ...

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.

As the usual semi-annual reports of benzedrine-happy students filtered into the Medical Department, Arlie V. Bock '15, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, yesterday warned against the drug's use as ...