Posted on 04/21/2013 7:27:11 AM PDT by Zakeet
In 1962, at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, a man “peeled off his clothing and began prancing around his hotel suite.” His bodyguards were cautiously amused, until the man “left the suite and began roaming through the corridor of the Carlyle.”
The man in question was delusional, paranoid and suffering a “psychotic break” from the effects of an overdose of methamphetamine.
He was also the president of the United States.
The reason for John F. Kennedy’s bizarre behavior was that, according to an explosive new book, the president was — unbeknownst to him, at first — a meth addict.
The man who supposedly made him so was Max Jacobson, a doctor who had invented a secret vitamin formula that gave people renewed energy and cured their pain, and was given the code name “Dr. Feelgood” by Kennedy’s Secret Service detail.
This formula was actually methamphetamine, and over the course of a decades-long practice, Jacobson became doctor to the stars, making unknowing drug addicts out of a long list of the famous and distinguished, including JFK and his wife, Jackie, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mantle, Eddie Fisher, Truman Capote and many more.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Remember when the press was a good ol’ boys club and covered for the Pres?
What? It’s happening again?!
Never mind.
Also explains his sexual appetite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine
Discovery
Shortly after the first synthesis of amphetamine in 1887,[97] methamphetamine was synthesized from ephedrine in 1893 by Japanese chemist Nagai Nagayoshi.[98] The term “methamphetamine” was derived from elements of the chemical structure of this new compound: methyl alpha-methyl phenyl ethyl amine. In 1919, crystallized methamphetamine was synthesized by pharmacologist Akira Ogata via reduction of ephedrine using red phosphorus and iodine.[97]
Military use
One of the earliest uses of methamphetamine was during World War II, when it was used by Axis and Allied forces.[99] The company Temmler produced methamphetamine under the trademark Pervitin and so did the German and Finnish militaries. It was also dubbed “Pilot’s chocolate” or “Pilot’s salt”.[100] It was widely distributed across rank and division, from elite forces to tank crews and aircraft personnel, with many millions of tablets being distributed throughout the war.[101] Its use by German Panzer crews also lead to it being known as “Panzerschokolade” (”Panzer chocolate” or “tankers’ chocolate”).[102][103] More than 35 million three-milligram doses of Pervitin and the closely related Isophan were manufactured for the German army and air force between April and July 1940.[104] From 1942 until his death in 1945, Adolf Hitler may have been given intravenous injections of methamphetamine by his personal physician Theodor Morell. It is possible that it was used to treat Hitler’s speculated Parkinson’s disease, or that his Parkinson-like symptoms that developed from 1940 onwards resulted from using methamphetamine.[105] In Japan, methamphetamine was sold under the registered trademark of Philopon [106] hiropon[107]) by Dainippon Pharmaceuticals (present-day Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma [DSP]) for civilian and military use. As with the rest of the world at the time, the side effects of methamphetamine were not well studied, and regulation was not seen as necessary. In the 1940s and 1950s the drug was widely administered to Japanese industrial workers to increase their productivity.[108]
Methamphetamine and amphetamine were given to Allied bomber pilots during World War II to sustain them by fighting off fatigue and enhancing focus during long flights. The experiment failed because soldiers became agitated, could not channel their aggression and showed impaired judgment.[97] Rather, dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine) became the drug of choice for American bomber pilots, being used on a voluntary basis by roughly half of the U.S. Air Force pilots during the Persian Gulf War, a practice which came under some media scrutiny in 2003 after a mistaken attack on Canadian troops.[109]
To be fair, the profoundly detrimental effects of regular meth use were not well understood at the time.
“...and was given the code name “Dr. Feelgood” by Kennedy’s Secret Service detail.”
Is this the guy that inspired the song, “Dr. Feelgood,” by Motley Crue?
I just have to be doubtful that these injections could have caused Jackie’s death so many years later. she was a chain smoker which seems a more likely cause.
Or used the suppository form of it!
From the Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine
Suppository
Suppository (anal or vaginal insertion) is a less popular method of administration used in the community with comparatively little research into its effects.[93] Information on its use is largely anecdotal with reports of increased sexual pleasure and the effects of the drug lasting longer,[94] though as methamphetamine is centrally active in the brain, these effects are likely experienced through the higher bioavailability of the drug in the bloodstream (second to injection) and the faster onset of action (than insufflation).[95] Nicknames for the route of administration within some methamphetamine communities include a “butt rocket”, a “booty bump”, “potato thumping”, “turkey basting”, “plugging”, “boofing”, “suitcasing”, “hooping”, “keistering”, “shafting”, “bumming”, and “shelving” (vaginal).[93][96]
From the article: “Ditching his Secret Service handlers to meet Jacobson in private, Kennedy told him that the rigors of the campaign had him feeling weak and muscle-achy to the point where he was “almost crippled by the pain.”
Here’s the problem: The Secret Service did nor provide protection to non-encumbant presidential candidates until after Sirhan Sirhan assassinated RFK in 1968. If the author of the article can’t get this basic fact correct, then I have to seriously question the rest of the story.
Now that is a moniker I could personally get used to.
Clinton was a coke freak.
I’ve seen polaroid pictures of Clinton snorting coke.
A lot of entertainers and supposedly brilliant public figures are, I’m sure, totally the result of meth/coke.
A drug test of ALL incumbent elected officials should be mandatory. Dream on, I know.
Add media to that and we’d not see any of ‘em again...
addicted to lidocaine. Close to cocaine
In an alternate world the United States decisively defeated North Vietnam, put the USSR out of it's misery before 1989, never legalized non-emergency abortions, kept its pre-1965 immigration (and teaching) standards and puts traitors on trial. That United States would also never allow a mind-controlling death cult to be protected under the guise of religion.
It’s a democrat thing the entire tribe are users.It’s why the young and the dumb love them.
“A lot of entertainers and supposedly brilliant public figures are, I’m sure, totally the result of meth/coke.”
That’s why it’s mostly other meth/coke heads that think they are brilliant.
With entertainers their so called “cutting edge” humor isn’t funny.
So called “brilliant thinkers” brilliant thoughts lack any real substance as far as real thought.
“Hope” “Change” “Yes we can” such deep thought man!
I agree with you 100%. Drug test should be mandatory for all elected officials and for anyone appointed to a position of authority.
Unfortunately, back in the 50’s and 60’s methamphetamine was commonly prescribed by doctors for such things as weight control, fatigue, or depression.
” never legalized non-emergency abortions,”
I heard Goldwater was for abortion?
To be fair, the profoundly detrimental effects of regular meth use were not well understood at the time.
You're entirely correct, Sherman Logan, and I have a hunch the detrimental effects and side effects of psychotropic drugs now being prescribed to millions of people are likewise not at all well understood.
How come nobody seems to know?
There is far more comprehensive research required to introduce new drugs today than in the 50s and 60s.
While there are many negative results of these regulations, we also know a lot more about the effects of any drug before it is released.
Which is not to really invalidate your point, just that we are now LESS likely to introduce new drugs and later discover unexpected side effects.
Ah “Mother’s Little Helper” in the Stones Song???
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