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Hitler's Drug Use: A Documented Medical Record

Photograph of shots to illustrate Hitler's dependence on certain medications

By World War II, Adolf Hitler was heavily medicated under the care of his personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell. Surviving medical records show he was routinely administered a complex cocktail of drugs, including methamphetamine (Pervitin), oxycodone (Eukodal), barbiturates, sedatives, hormone preparations, and cocaine-based medications.


These substances were prescribed for energy, pain, mood, and physical complaints, but over time the regimen intensified. By the early 1940s, Hitler was receiving daily injections and pills, showing signs of physical decline, neurological symptoms, and chemical dependence.


This is not rumor or postwar myth. Morell’s detailed medical logs survive and are studied by historians and physicians. Hitler’s deterioration was not only ideological and psychological. It was also pharmacological.

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