Why'd I take speed for twenty years? (Part 1)
Search Engine
PJ Vogt
4.8 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
One of the millions of millennials given prescription stimulants to treat ADHD decides to quit. And afterwards wonders -- how did these drugs becomes so popular, so fast? This week, the story of amphetamine's birth, life, death, and rebirth in America. (Methylphenidates, too.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Search Engine. I'm PJ Vote. Each week we try to answer a question we have about the world. |
| 0:05.5 | No question too big, no question too small. |
| 0:08.0 | This week, the first of a two-part story, it's about a very popular group of chemicals in America and I should |
| 0:16.0 | say each part represents two different perspectives on the same drugs. So if you don't hear your |
| 0:21.7 | perspective in this one you might hear it in the next one. |
| 0:24.3 | Our question, how can I take so much speed for 20 years? |
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| 1:35.0 | At the time, the adults in my life were annoyed because my grades were pretty bad. |
| 1:39.0 | They'd started using the word potential very ominously, uttering it like a curse word that meant I'd been saddled with a lot of debt I couldn't quite pay. |
| 1:47.0 | My parents had me go see a doctor. The doctor told me I had ADHD. I already knew I had ADHD. Everyone knew I had ADHD. I lost my backpack |
| 1:57.0 | pretty much every three days. My brain heard everything my math teacher said in the |
| 2:01.3 | adults from Charlie Brown trumpet voice, pretty much the only |
| 2:05.1 | thing I could reliably focus on was Goldenie for Dendor 64. |
| 2:09.3 | I was amazing at it. |
| 2:11.3 | Still, when the doctor told me the solution to all this might be a drug called |
| 2:14.4 | Dexidron, I told him I wasn't comfortable with that. I considered myself |
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