Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside

13 reviews

haleybre's review against another edition

dark informative tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Torture, Chronic illness, Genocide, Trafficking, War, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicide, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Violence

wlreed312's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

Fascinating but occasionally difficult to read due to a lot of different hormones and drug injections being listed. I got slightly bogged down in the details sometimes. And the structure was a bit hard sometimes; I'm not sure if that was a translation issue or a me issue (probably the latter, I thought the translation was overall pretty great). Disturbing and honestly very weird, but incredibly informative. And due to the subject matter, less discussions of antisemitism than I was expecting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Medical content, Medical trauma, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Torture, Antisemitism, Suicide, and Religious bigotry

hello_sweetie11's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

4.5

The fact that this isn’t shared in school astounds me. There is so much learned from this book, and so many pieces of history that are linked back to Hitler and his drugs. Eye-opening and jaw-dropping are what I can say about this. There’s so much to process from this, and tons of little snippets of this reign of terror that have been left out of history and should really make their way to the surface. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

kyleighwhitsell's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and War

lori_j's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

angelfireeast24's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Drug abuse, Genocide, Racial slurs, Suicide, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Violence, War, Addiction, Drug use, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Ableism, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, and Gun violence

Minor: Excrement and Animal cruelty

catiedemas's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Antisemitism, War, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Genocide

haley49's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, War, Drug use, Addiction, and Death

Moderate: Genocide, Physical abuse, and Violence

lizzzardbean's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Drug use, and Drug abuse

krytykesa's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

3.0

It was obvious that such an exciting topic couldn't be approached without speculations. I wished there were more facts and less guessing. But I would recommend the book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Addiction, Drug use, and Drug abuse