New Slimming Drug Dexedrine May Be Harmful When Taken
Many women are using a new slimming drug, dexedrine, to reduce their weight. Because it is not listed as a dangerous drug, dexedrine is being sold by Australian chemists without’h medical prescription, but doctors have warned that in some cases it can have a harmful effect. Dexedrine is a stimulant and a development of benzedrine. Its success as a slimming agent lies in its property of reducing a patient’s appetite by half, thus reducing the intake of food. In most cases it can be taken without ill effect, but persons suffering from heart trouble and high blood pressure may collapse after its use. Doctors, therefore, advise against its use unless the person has first been medically examined and follows a medical prescription. Dexedrine is also used to treat alcoholics and is known to have been used to dope racehorses.
Chemists say that taxi drivers are taking dexedrine to keep awake on long night shifts, because it did not leave them with so big a “hangover” "as benzedrine.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 63, 14 November 1949, Page 4
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