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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tonto who wrote (757571)12/13/2013 12:06:31 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (4) of 1574706
 
Everyone, but you I guess, knows Ayn Rand took methamphetamines for many years (30). It was not satire.

She took benzedrine for 30 years!! Benzedrine is meth!

While completing the novel, Rand was prescribed the amphetamine Benzedrine to fight fatigue. [46] The drug helped her to work long hours to meet her deadline for delivering the finished novel, but when the book was done, she was so exhausted that her doctor ordered two weeks' rest. [47]

Her continued use of the drug for approximately three decades

may have contributed to what some of her later associates described as volatile mood swings. [48]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

The Fountainhead
eventually became a worldwide success, bringing Rand fame and financial security. [49] In 1943, Rand sold the rights

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