Many suspensions have been handed out to NFL players because of the use of amphetamines, including the ADHD drug Adderall.

FORBES: Stiff Competition: Are NFL Players Using Viagra to Boost Playing Performance?

Despite centuries of supposed weight-loss remedies from anti-obesity soaps, crash diets based on vinegar to even amphetamines, fads have failed.

CNN: Why isn't there a safe weight-loss pill?

According to a 2012 UNODC report, use among 15-64-year-olds in Iceland of cocaine was 0.9%, of ecstasy 0.5%, and of amphetamines 0.7%.

BBC: Why is violent crime so rare in Iceland?

The World Anti-Doping Agency will decide whether the tents should be on the banned list of performance enhancers, just like anabolic steroids and amphetamines.

NPR: Anti-Doping Agency Reviews Low-Oxygen Tents

Everyone agrees that when products are not only bogus but actually injurious, such as herbal supplements laced with anabolic steroids or amphetamines, regulatory action is appropriate.

FORBES: Food, Fraud And The Feds

They've got an agreement with the Players' Association that they're going to test not just for steroids, but amphetamines, which have been in the game for 40 years.

NPR: Baseball, Steroids and Barry Bonds

According to the British Crime Survey, the proportion of 16- to 24-year-olds who used amphetamines in the previous 12 months fell from 12% in 1996 to 4% last year.

ECONOMIST: Young Britons are drinking more but popping less

For Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, Thai Army chief Surayudh Chulanont and other law enforcers, the frontline of the war against amphetamines pouring into Thailand lies up in the forested hills of the Myanmar border.

CNN: TARGET THE BIG FISH

While Apple claims the device gets up to five hours of battery life--just about enough for a cross-country flight, provided you're not delayed--the inability to replace the battery on the go could be a problem for hard-core road warriors, who pop batteries into their machines the way a long-distance trucker gobbles amphetamines.

FORBES: Magazine Article