Amphetamines
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Toxic Psychiatry
[3.6 millions US kids on Ritalin, a fancy name for a remix of a street drug. Most amphetamine street drugs started out as Allopathic medicine, eg Ecstasy and Speed, and Ritalin is a street drug now.]
Amphetamines (alpha-methyl-phenethylamine), also known as speed or crank, is a stimulant, and club drug. Along with methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta, etc.), amphetamine is one of the standard treatments for ADHD. Amphetamines are also a standard treatment for narcolepsy as well as other sleeping disorders. Amphetamines are sometimes used to augment anti-depressant therapy in treatment-resistant depression. Medical use for weight loss is still approved in some countries, but is regarded as obsolete and dangerous in, for example, the United States.
[2008] America's First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929-1971 By Nicolas Rasmussen "By the end of World War II in 1945, less than a decade after amphetamine tablets were introduced to medicine, over half a million civilians were using the drug psychiatrically or for weight loss, and the consumption rate in the United States was greater than 2 tablets per person per year on a total-population (all ages) basis."
Allopathic use
No medical use was found for Amphetamine until the 1920s, when
it was introduced in most of the world in the form of the pharmaceutical
Benzedrine. This drug was used by the
militaries of several nations, especially the air forces, to fight fatigue and
increase alertness among servicemen. After decades of reports of abuse, the FDA
banned Benzedrine inhalers, and limited amphetamines to prescription use in
1959, but illegal use became common.
MDMA was legal in the United States until May 31, 1985 [2]. Before then, it was used both as an adjunct to psychotherapy and as a recreational drug. MDMA began to be used therapeutically in the mid-1970s after the chemist Alexander Shulgin introduced it to psychotherapist Leo Zeff. As Zeff and others spread word about MDMA, it developed a reputation for enhancing communication, reducing psychological defenses, and increasing capacity for introspection. A small number of therapists–including George Greer, Joseph Downing, and Philip Wolfson–used it in their practices until it was made illegal.
Drug list
Amphetamine (Adderall)
Atomoxetine (Strattera
)
Dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine
and Dextrostat)
Laevoamphetamine (Benzedrine)
Methamphetamine (Desoxyn,
Methedrine) Street names: crystal, meth,
ice, speed, glass, chalk, crank)
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Street names Ecstasy,
MDMA, E or X
)
Methylphenidate
(Ritalin)
" Amphetamines: These are
extremely dangerous drugs. They include dextro-amphetamine,
Benzedrine,
methamphetamine and amphetamine-like compounds such as Ritalin. In general, in
high doses, these drugs cause a "body trip" and cessation of thinking activity.
In the early days when Dexedrine was first synthesized by Smith, Kline and
French in Philadelphia, I did some psychopharmacologic experiments on myself
with it. In doses of 150 mgm. there is a spectacular increase in bodily energy
and a spectacular decrease in one's critical faculties in regard to this bodily
energy. There is a hedonistic over-valuation of one's own bodily acitivity so
that repeating tapeloops of bodily movement, for example, can occur for hours at
a time. With amphetamines, tank work can become rather repetitious and
simpleminded.
For three or four days after such a trip, there is
total exhaustion of the organism. This state can lead to negative things such as
trying to get "back to normal" by taking more of the amphetamines. This drives
one further into the exhaustion cycle and finally one becomes quite paranoid,
quite frightened, and may "freak out" totally. In an attempt to escape the
penalty of such tripping, certain persons have taken to barbiturates to calm
down the system after the trip. This leads to a cyclical effect in which one
gets so depressed by the barbiturates that one takes amphetamines to come up
again; one gets so excited by the amphetamines that one takes the barbiturates
to go down again. This cyclical "tapeloop" of two drugs can be extremely
dangerous—one can end up dead in a hurry. We recommend that
amphetamines not be used in tank research."--John
Lilly MD (The Deep Self)