3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Norman Ohler's 2016 history of drug use in Nazi Germany — documenting how Pervitin (methamphetamine) fueled the Blitzkrieg and how Hitler received daily drug injections — the most thoroughly documented account of institutional drug use in modern warfare.
British journalist — author of Chasing the Scream (on the drug war), Lost Connections (on depression), and Stolen Focus (on attention) — who writes contrarian popular psychology that challenges official narratives on addiction, depression, and focus.
German author — whose Blitzed (2016) documented the systematic use of methamphetamine by the German military and by Hitler personally during World War II — a mainstream historian's account that reads like a thriller.