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“Miltown,” huh... misty memories of the Golden Age of Pharmacology

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Thorazine for troublesome menopausal women was also a thing ...

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The White House follies make my skin crawl, my heart shudder and my funny bones ache. Watson, bring the needle!

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Loud Mouth Lime? For Chrissakes, don't tell him about the orange flavor. https://food52.com/blog/18562-maybe-these-pillsbury-drink-mix-mascots-are-best-left-in-1965

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Bedminster is a lot closer to NY than DC and since Trump is just spending all day watching TV that should give Boorstein plenty of time to come up even more exotic formulae. (I wonder what the interactions of, say, Miltown, Adderall and Astronaut Tang might be?)

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Milton and Darvocet would be quite the combo. Throw in some reserpine for his hypertension and chlorpromazine for his agitation and he should be able to handle the methamphetamine just fine.

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