Speed-Speed-Speedfreak: A Fast History of Amphetamine

Speed-Speed-Speedfreak traces the criminal and cultural use of amphetamine and its growing use through each new and destructive cycle. Speed is both one of the biggest social problems facing the country today, an indispensible component of the doctor’s medicine bag, and a huge and abiding influence on artists, musicians and writers. Formatted in the shape of an amphetamine capsule, this book presents award-winning author Mick Farren’s examination of the curious history of America’s secret addiction to speed, both in its political and cultural manifestations. The book that looks just like the subject it covers! Mick Farren is the former lead singer of The Deviants and the author of more than forty books.