BENZEDRINE

‘The Godwits Fly’ by Robin Hyde is one of my favourite books. It was written by Robin Hyde and published not long before her early death in August 1939. Robin Hyde died as a result of taking an overdose of BENZEDRINE which had been prescribed by her doctor.


The first report of BENZEDRINE in British newspapers, 16 May 1935, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer was incredibly prescient:

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