This month’s isse of “American History” has an article about JFK and his “Dr. Feelgood”.
According to the article, Kennedy received regualr injections of some substance that contained methamphetamines…this was done to relieve Kenndy’s constant back pains.
What wasn’t said was the degree of use-it does seem that Kennedy was an addict or close to being addicted-it is frightening to think that this guy could have started WWIII as the reslt of too much meth.
Do modern protocols forbid adminsitering methamphetamines to the POTUS?
Just taking a wild ass guess here, but you’ve never atually known a “meth addict”, have you? Sort of thing kinda stands out.
Bad teeth if nothing else. 
-XT
did he owe Oswald some meth money?
case closed.
If this bothers you, then you really don’t want to know what kind of pills Richard Nixon was on when he was President, while mixing them with prodigious quantities of alcohol.
So he was in chronic pain and received professional medical care to treat it. Not scandalous.
Not scandalous, but a surprise to many people because chronic back pain was a problem for JFK for many years. Also, most of us don’t keep a clear mind when on painkillers even when under the care of a good doctor. There’s a reason they tell you not to operate heavy machinery or engage in a standoff with the USSR while taking the pills.
JFK suffered from chronic back pain as a result of unsuccessful back surgeries for treatment of injuries from WW2. One of the treatments involved injections of procaine, which is chemically related to street meth, but I’m not sure it’s accurate to say it contains methamphetamines. Treatment was by injections into the region of the injury, and the procaine acted as a local anesthetic.
Suggest you read “Office Hours Day and Night” by Dr. Janet Travell. Dr. Travell was Kennedy’s personal physician and a pioneer in the treatment of chronic back pain. Not sure if she’s the one you’re referring to as “Dr. Feelgood”, but the description is inaccurate and unworthy of “American History” if it came from that publication and not from you. In addition to the procaine injections, her treatment included design of a special, ergonomically designed rocking chair.
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Dr. Travell became absorbed in the problems of skeletal muscle pain. Dr. Travell helped develop new anesthetic techniques for treating painful muscle spasm by employing local procaine injection and vapocoolant sprays such as ethyl chloride (used widely in sports medicine today.)
Dr. Travell was able to locate muscular sources for his chronic pain, and injected low-level procaine directly into the Senator’s lumbar muscles, which proved effective. She also discovered that one of Kennedy’s legs was shorter than the other, and ordered special shoes that would relieve the stress this condition put on his back. Without the medical expertise of Dr. Travell, Kennedy and his family were convinced that his political career would have come to a premature end…She advocated his use of a rocking chair to alleviate President Kennedy’s back pain and in the process popularized their use among the public, who saw the President pictured in his rocker in the Oval Office. (Dr. Travell took aspects of seating design seriously, and worked as a consultant to such companies as John Deere and Lockheed to produce more comfortable and supportive seats for tractors and airplanes.) **
*from “Pain Education, a Tribute to Dr. Janet Travell” by Lyle Slovick
Muskie *was not *on Ibogaine.
Damn SeldomSeen, ignorance fought and then some.
Why this board is still worthwhile.
If you can’t trust Hunter Thompson, who can you trust?
“Dr. Feelgood” was the late Dr. Max Jaconson-who “treated” many other celebrities-he almost killed Micky Mantle with a shot …the article states that Jacobson injected Mantle with an nsterile needle-which caused a massive infection.
Scarey stuff!
Ralph, GET YOUR FORA STRAIGHT.
You have asked a GENERAL QUESTION and placed it in the GREAT DEBATES forum.
I am going to leave it open, even though the question has been answered and–on this occasion–I am going to refrain from issuing a Warning for violating Mod instructions, but I am going to move it to the proper forum and I am going to Warn you if you keep this up.
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I think this question hasn’t been answered. What is the protocol if the President of the United States asks the Secret Service to cook him up some meth in one of the sub-basements?
The Breaking Bad theory, which explains that tunnel from the White House to the Pollos Hermanos across the street.
That would certainly explain the actions of the previous administration ba-dum-ching
It’s not even remotely true to say procaine “contains” methamphetamine; it’s not even related. Procaine, also known as Novocain, is an amino-ester-type local anaesthetic; amphetamine and methamphetamine are phenylethylamine derivatives, and are nothing like procaine in their chemistry or their effects.
Sorry, but I thought that GD was a suitable form (as the American History article never did say if what Dr. Jacobson administered to JFK was in fact methamphetamines.
They did show a vial of something…which they claim/inferred contained a mixture of drugs and amphetamines.
Dr Jacobson administered shots to his patients which were mixtures of vitamins, hormones, and amphetamine. He started giving them to JFK just before his televised debate with Nixon and never stopped until JFK’s death. JFK probably did not take enough to become genuinely addicted. He probably craved the way they made him feel energetic and strong, especially since he had been sickly most of his life. The Dr. Feelgood nickname was not perjorative at all when his patients gave it to him. JFK had been warned by his other doctors about the injections but he told people he did not care what was in them, but just that they worked.
Max Jacobson was the drug dealer to the stars in the 50s and 60s. Not just Kennedy but Eddie Fisher, Marlene Dietrich, Zero Mostel, Nelson Rockefeller and a lot more.