Dexedrine
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She also drank and took pills and didn’t hesitate to give her young son “a vitamin” that was actually the upper Dexedrine on those mornings when he didn’t want to go to school.
From Washington Post
“I was on Ritalin and Dexedrine as a kid, and I’m still mad at my mom about it,” recalled Doremus.
From Los Angeles Times
The underlying reasons were deep and old: My mother was depressed and had her own addiction to Dexedrine.
From US News
You have also concocted exquisite justification — for excusing yourself, just once, to a row at the back of the theater and staying put, free to type as much as Joyce Carol Oates on Dexedrine.
From New York Times
In 1954, after some months of popping over-the-counter Dexedrine to stay slim, she was poisoned by it and went mildly insane for a spell.
From New York Times
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