# Drugs that nobody does anymore

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 6, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drugs-that-nobody-does-anymore/633912 "2012-09-06T21:49:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drugs-that-nobody-does-anymore/633912/41 "2012-09-07T19:35:28Z")

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> [@Truman\_Burbank](#):
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> Similary, you used to be able to buy menthol nasal inhalers for a stuffy nose that apparently had a felt strip inside of them soaked in some form of amphetamine. I remember the inhalers well, but never ran the experiment.

Sounds like [benzedrine inhalers.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzedrine) I remember that Le Chiffre used one in _Casino Royale_.

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