America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971: A Public Health Article

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America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929 – 1971: A Quantitative and Qualitative Retrospective with implications for the present is a public health article written by Nicolas Rasmussen (https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2007.110593, 2007). This article mainly talks about the amphetamine epidemic in the United States that took place between the period of 1940 and 1960. It targets readers who are mainly in the medical field, researchers, students, as well as the binary people in this case seeking knowledge in regards to the prevalence of its medical and dental nonmedical use. This article is written mainly to inform the audience or readers about its prevalence leading to the drug problems that the United States is facing away from a few of my own creation of the y today, suggesting a stricter implementation in controlling its production. As presented in this article, history played a great role in the outbreak of amphetamine abuse in the United States today.
According to the article, there is still increasing use of the word of pamphletsamine resulting in a public health problem nowadays. The first wave of the amphetamine epidemic was due to the pharmaceutical industry and medical professionals seeking to find an alternative medication as decongestant and bronchodilator. Amphetamine was then discovered by Gordon Alles in 1929. Additionally, it has also been found out that it can control symptoms for narcolepsy, post-encephalitic Parkinsonism, and minor depression. With the success of its use, the US military has also employed Benzedrine during the war as a routine use in aviation, stocked in the emergency kits, or as a general medical supply. It has also been popularized that consumption of this medication can induce weight loss which boosted its sales in the coming years. Significant drug abuse has developed immediately due to its availability. One factor that contributed to this is military exposure, affecting prisoners ...