Stimulants can cause increased heart and respiratory rates, elevated
blood pressure, dilated pupils, and decreased appetite. In addition,
users may experience sweating, headache, blurred vision, dizziness,
sleeplessness, and anxiety. Extremely high doses can cause a rapid or
irregular heartbeat, tremors, loss of coordination, and even physical
collapse. An amphetamine injection creates a sudden increase in blood
pressure that can result in stroke, very high fever, or heart failure.
In addition to the physical effects, users report feeling restless,
anxious, and moody. Higher doses intensify the effects. Persons who
use large amounts of amphetamines over a long period of time can
develop an amphetamine psychosis that includes hallucinations,
delusions, and paranoia. These symptoms usually disappear when drug
use ceases.
Type What is What does it How is
it called? look like? it used?
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Amphetamines Speed Capsules Taken orally
Uppers Pills Injected
Ups Tablets Inhaled
Black Beauties through
Pep Pills nasal
Copilots passages
Bumblebees
Hearts
Benzedrine
Dexedrine
Footballs
Biphetamine
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Metham- Crank White powder Taken orally
phetamines Crystal Meth Pills Injected
Crystal A rock which Inhaled
Methedrine resembles a through
Speed block of paraffin nasal
passages
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Additional Ritalin Pills Taken orally
Stimulants Cylert Capsules Injected
Preludin Tablets
Didrex
Pre-State
Voranil
Tenuate
Tepanil
Pondimin
Sandrex
Plegine
Ionamin
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