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cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5831395
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GoCartMozart1980 on 2025-05-15 14:58:41+00:00.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/dextroamphetamine#%3A~%3Atext=Dextroamphetamine+has+been+used+by%2Csleep+(Mehlman%2C+2015).
The person you replied to didn’t say meth but dextroamphetamine. Dextroamphetamine was used by the US in WW2.
Germans used Methamphetamine.
"From April to July 1940, German service members on the Western Front received more than 35 million methamphetamine pills. "
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_drugs_in_warfare#%3A~%3Atext=Amphetamines+were+given+to+troops%2Cthan+35+million+methamphetamine+pills.
But that person was replying to the thread with this top level comment
Without context many will just read that as verification of the above claim.