• Anivia
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        3 months ago

        How hard is it to read the article you posted? They didn’t sell methamphetamine to housewives, it was amphetamine. That is a VERY big difference

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          3 months ago

          As a woman with crippling ADHD, I can’t imagine the horror of trying the new wonder drug, discovering it helped me keep the house and avoid being beaten, and then eventually having to go back to doing without…

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      No, that’s probably because of the Hayes Code, which limited the sorts of things you could show on TV. People don’t remember the real 1950s, just the film and TV of it.