What is amphetamine?
Amphetamine Powder 5 grams per package is a synthetic stimulant. Their current medical use is limited, with only Dexedrine (dexamphetamine sulfate) currently available for use in the treatment of narcolepsy – where the patient cannot help suddenly falling asleep. The only other amphetamine-related drug available for medical use is methylphenidate (Ritalin) for the treatment of attention deficit syndrome in children (Ritalin is not strictly an amphetamine, though it is very similar in chemical structure and effects).
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As a street drug, amphetamine usually comes as a white, grey, yellowish, or pinky powder or as a putty-like substance known as base. The purity of street powders is less than 15 percent, with most deals having only 10% amphetamine and the rest of other powders like glucose, vitamin C, laxatives, dried baby milk baby, caffeine, or other drugs such as paracetamol or aspirin.
The base is stronger at roughly 50 percent purity or more, but this is declining. A similar though some say stronger form of the drug is methamphetamine. This comes as a powder, crystals (known as ice), or in tablet form.
The powders are snorted up the nose, mixed in a drink, or, by some heavy users, prepared for injection. The base is usually swallowed or, because of its bad taste, wrapped in (cigarette) paper and bombed (swallowed). It can be snorted if dried out properly.
Methamphetamine is taken in a number of ways, depending on the form. Pills are swallowed. In the crystal form, because the salt base has been removed, it can be easily ignited and smoked (in a similar way crack is to cocaine). The powder is swallowed or snorted.
Why do people take amphetamines?
- You feel happier, euphoric even
- It increases your confidence so that you are, in fact, awesome
- It gives you a tonne of energy, so you’re really motivated to get things DONE
- You’re more alert and able to concentrate
- You talk CONSTANTLY which might annoy the people around you, but you don’t care – you’re awesome
- It makes you more desperate to have sex than usual
- It squashes your appetite, so has even been used to help lose weight
Prevalence
During the 1990s, amphetamine was a popular drug among young people attending all-night parties and dance events and is probably the next most commonly used illegal drug after cannabis. Buy Amphetamine Powder 5 grams per package online.
Surveys have shown between 5 and 18 percent of 16-year-olds claiming to have used it at least once. Its use is very much on the decline, however. The 2000 British Crime Survey shows that among 16 to 19-year-olds, 13% had tried the drug in 2000, compared to 18% in 1998. Roughly 20% of those in their twenties have used it at least once.
Meth (or methyl-) amphetamine has become common in America and Asia. In crystal form (ice) it can be very strong, resulting in a quick, hard hit when smoked. This can often lead to intense paranoia and a very unpleasant comedown. It has not (yet) become common in the UK but there have been reports of it being sold as speed in places like Glasgow and in some gay clubs. Ice tends to be sold at £25 for a large rock.
Effects/risks
Amphetamine and methamphetamine are stimulant drugs. They increase breathing and heart rate, lessen appetite and make the pupils widen. Users tend to feel more alert, energetic, confident and cheerful and less bored or tired. With high doses people often experience a rapid flow of ideas and feel they have increased physical and mental powers.
Like all drugs, the method taken determines how quickly and how intense the effects will be. If swallowed, the effects come on much slower and the effects less intense. If snorted, smoked or injected, the effects are quick and, depending on dose, can be intense.
“It’s a wide awake buzz. It intensifies everything. It makes me feel really confident and energetic. You don’t feel hungry and can skip sleeping. It makes me talk a lot even though it’s probably bollocks. I used to get a lot of good rushes like feeling hot and cold, your hairs standing up all over your body and your head spinning. The problem now is all the crap. Whizz can be cut with anything from baking soda to battery acid. I only buy from people I know and stuff I’ve used before”
With some people, and especially as the body’s energy stores become run down, feelings of anxiety, irritability and restlessness are common. Taking a lot, especially over a few days, can produce panic and paranoia. This usually goes once the drug is eliminated from the body. The strong ‘upper’ effect can be particularly dangerous to people who have heart or blood pressure problems.
“I am quite lazy by inclination and have had confidence problems at various stages of my life. Amphetamine seemed to solve both these problems. I didn’t get tired and I didn’t get self-conscious. In fact, I felt witty, energetic, powerful, amusing. For six months I thought I was God. I wrote masses, lost a lot of weight, which was bothering me at the time, and didn’t have to miss out on anything through the mundane need to sleep. The use gradually escalated until I was only sleeping about three nights a week… I woke up one day and decided I couldn’t stand it any more… There was this complete lassitude and depression in the first couple of days. I don’t think I’ve felt quite so low in my life… I could do virtually nothing, but what I would do was get up as early as possible, which effectively meant that after week two I was getting up at four instead of five, and a week or two after that, at noon. When I actually got to the point where eight hours’ sleep was enough and I could get up at 9 am I went back to work. This took about two months, but it was 18 months before I felt I was restored to the kind of human being I’d been before taking the speed.” Writer quoted in A. Tyler, Street Drugs. NEL 1986.
Injecting amphetamine is particularly dangerous. A very high dose may be taken in one go and the rubbish that is mixed with the street powder may in itself be dangerous to inject. If injecting equipment is shared, there is the risk of infection including hepatitis and HIV. Buy Amphetamine Powder 5 grams per package now!



