Drug info - benzedrine

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SWIM was reading the book "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, and read one part where they were using a drug called "benzedrine," and they called it "bennies" for slang. SWIM didn't know what it was, so he looked it up, and found that benzedrine was a brand name for amphetamine back in the day, and benzedrine inhalers were over-the-counter meds from the forties and the fifties. people would open up the inhalers and eat the little pieces of paper inside, which were soaked with benzedrine, and those were bennies. and also, they sold it as tablets in the sixties, and they would give benzedrine tablets to soldiers in the sixties to make their senses clearer and make them better in battle. SWIM has never heard of amphetamine being used in this way before. is there still benzedrine in the U.S., or anywhere for that matter? is there still such thing as the benzedrine inhaler, and if so, do people still take bennies like that?