Rewind
1966 “It has suddenly become a national obsession,” Newsweek wrote of LSD about 30 years after the psychedelic drug was first synthesized. As young people turned on, older folks were shocked at the hallucinogen’s popularity within the counterculture. Although LSD caused alarm at the time, it was clear even then that “the current mind drugs are only the curtainraisers for the brave new world taking shape in the lab.” The 1990s saw the rise of ecstasy and methamphetamine, while today synthetic opioids are the leading cause of overdose deaths in the United States.
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