• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    102·
    16 days ago

    Explanation: The Nazis used high doses of amphetamines and especially methamphetamine to give their soldiers ‘staying power’ in the field, part of why they overran France - some Nazi tankers were driving and fighting for a week straight without sleep or rest. Lower doses of extended release amphetamines are used in the modern day to treat ADHD. One imagines the occasional lone guy with ADHD and a pervitin pill was sitting under a tree and rethinking some life choices instead.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      18·
      15 days ago

      driving and fighting for a week straight without sleep or rest.

      Holy crap I was gonna ask if this was literally possible but…yeah…I guess so!

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_sleep_deprivation_experiment

      I’m still surprised there weren’t more accounts of them losing their minds. A week without sleep? That’s terrifying to think about.

      Sidenote: Weird seeing this after I only learned about the “Russian Sleep Experiment” creepypasta like a month ago. Lol

      • radical_larry@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        They did things. Being awake for long on amphetamines is probably a factor. There is a reason (at least) the west uses modafinil instead of amphetamines now.

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      It’s good to point out that amphetamines are not the only treatment for ADHD nor are they always the best treatment. In fact Methylphenidate (Ritalin) is a Norepinephrine-Domamine Reuptake Inhibitor, which while still having dopaminergic effects on the brain, are not amphetamines and can’t really even be detected through traditional urinalysis means.

      So those of us who do take Methylphenidate and are subject to regular urinalysis to measure amphetamine content as a requirement to obtain a prescription renewal for the drug in the US, are actually being tested for additional non-perscription use of amphetamines unrelated to our ADHD treatment. I feel this should be illegal and that Methylphenidate should really be removed from the list of controlled substances.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Allies did too, actually. On lower scale maybe. USSR … did have its own stuff, but it was kinda even more unhealthy (leading to blindness sometimes) than what the rest had, so it was used in extreme conditions only, usually very low temperatures, very rarely.

      I personally used high doses of German military marches and pr0n to “self-medicate” being 15-17. LOL.

      And Star Wars soundtracks after that. And Warcraft II soundtracks.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yep, the Western Allies widely used amphetamine on a smaller and more restricted scale (the Nazis issued more meth in a year than the US and the UK combined distributed amphetamines over the course of the entire war). Still, you’d find troops being distributed amphetamines for prolonged engagements and, especially, as ‘go pills’ for pilots.

    • Zozano@lemy.lolEnglish
      9·
      14 days ago

      Is this some kind of advanced sarcasm I’ve never known about until now?

    • radical_larry@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      14 days ago

      Dextrometh even, like, if they had colds they couldve just used levometh but no the toothbrush mustache guy had to make it dextrometh

      Edit the dude in question probably got parkinson(ism) from the use of pertrivin, too