• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      It did initially, but keeping people awake for days turned out to be counterproductive as a standard procedure, so they dialed it back a lot.

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        3 days ago

        It also the beginning of the better living through chemicals era. Which I kinda think was a backlash to the prohibition of the 30s, just delayed by WW2 a bit.

        Also drug company capitalism though.