Nazi Doctors' Morphine Epidemic
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Sam Parr shares a historical revelation about widespread drug use in Nazi Germany, particularly among medical professionals.
"I started reading this book called 'Blitz: Drugs in the Third Reich.' In the 1930s, morphine, heroin, and meth were invented and doctors thought they were miracle drugs. They'd say 'take this meth, it makes you feel great, gives you euphoria, you'll stay up all the time, eat less.'
It was a legal drug that Bayer was selling. They would even put it in chocolates - there was a chocolate you could eat that had meth in it. It was so common that something like 60% of German doctors were addicted to morphine, and these were the ones voting on what the laws were going to be around how these controlled substances were handled.
Hitler was a junkie - he was getting injected with meth for years. That's one of the reasons why when they were getting bombed at the very last minute, he was like 'oh no, we're doing great' because he was hallucinating and had thoughts of grandeur - typical meth behavior."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.