Talk:Benzedrine

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what evidence is there that william burroughs was a "notorious user of benzedrine"? - cl

This article fails to say if benzedrine is still available. And, if so, what name is it now under? As far as I know there is no longer an exclusively amphetamine prescription drug. Only combinations of it (adderall) . This is key to the whole article.

[edit] does benzedrine exist anymore? what about amphetamine?

This article fails to say if benzedrine is still available. And, if so, what name is it now under? As far as I know there is no longer an exclusively amphetamine prescription drug. Only combinations of it (adderall) . This is key to the whole article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.192.100.171 (talk • contribs) .

Racemic amphetamine (Benzedrine) is obsolete (although it may still be used in the developing world). Dexedrine (d-amphetamine) is still commonly used, as is Adderal which is exclusively an amphetamine drug. --Bk0 (Talk) 13:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Adderall is 2 dextro isomers, plus 2 types of amphetamine. not purely "amphetamine". Don't you think this article should include when benzedrine was discontinued? Why? What made it obsolete, while other amphetamines, and combinations of straight amphetamine boomed for ADHD? This is key to the article!!!

Other 'influences' I can think of... Akira, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and possibly Walk the Line. Pipedreambomb 03:24, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

This article needs references quite badly. It could also use a fair bit of cleaning up, but I'll hold off on adding the appropriate tags (for now). Fuzzform 22:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rearranged

The "Influence" section had a lot of trivia like "Benzedrine was mentioned in a movie and there was this one song that like had the word in it lawlz" and so I split the famous humans affected from the "mentioned in a song" section, named Trivia.

Also, the article interchanges Benzedrine with benzedrine, and the article should stay the same throughout. Which is it? Even trade names aren't always capitalised but usually are. I'm not changing them one way or another until someone knows which spelling (capital B or no) it needs. "Bennies" I have surely seen in books as lower case. 82.93.133.130 07:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)