Welcome to Sturge Engine. I'm PJ Boat.

Each week, we try to answer a question we have about the world. No question too big, no question too small.

Last week, I asked, why did I take speed for 20 years? This week, part two.

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different language to describe these compounds. Part two, our question goes, why did it take Bianca

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So, last week we shared an episode where I was asking a question I had about my own life.

Why did I take all these drugs? Adderall, 5Ans, Concerto, Ritalin, for 20 years of my life.

I'd never known the story of how those stimulants were invented and marketed. The story of all

the different people who had taken them for different reasons before our modern era,

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