Methamphetamine street drug

Methamphetannne is a notorious street drug One synthesis involves reductive amination of benzyl methyl ketone with methylamine What is the structure of methamphetamine ... 

Cocaine and amphetamines share a similar profile of addictiveness, though cocaines addictive properties are more intense. The cocaine that is inhaled nasally is the hydrochloride salt. The free-base form of cocaine, called crack cocaine, is also abused. As with the street drug ice, which is the free-base form of methamphetamine, crack cocaine is volatile and may be smoked for what is an intense but profoundly dangerous and addictive high. 

OFFICIAL NAMES Methamphetamine STREET NAMES Crystal, speed, meth, chalk, ice, glass DRUG CLASSIFICATIONS Schedule II, stimulant OFFICIAL NAMES Phencyclidine (PCP)... 

Ephedra has a long history of legal use in the United States and around the world. Today, the laws that apply to ephedra cover sales, formulation, and labeling by manufacturers they do not outlaw its use by consumers as with street drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. Because ephedrine can be used to manufacture methamphetamine, companies that sell bulk ephedrine and ephedrine tablets are subject to laws... 

Selegiline was approved by the FDA first, but one of the compounds to which it is metabolized has a structure similar to that of methamphetamine (the street drug known as speed page 179). So, some patients taking the drug experience psychiatric and cardiac effects. These side effects have not been found in patients taking rasagiline. 

Methamphetamine, a Schedule 11 drug, was first synthesized in 1919. It can be synthesized from ephedrine or pseudo-ephedrine. Methamphetamine is available by prescription for weight control, ADHD, and narcolepsy under the brand name Desoxyn . Street names for methamphetamine include chalk, crank, crystal, fire, glass, ice, rocks, shabu, speed, and yaba. Methamphetamine is often found at rave sites, where people exert themselves while dancing and deprive themselves of sleep, food, and drink, which can result in increased body temperature with excessive sweating and possibly a salt imbalance. 

STREET NAMES Methamphetamine Speed, crank DRUG CLASSIFICATIONS Schedule II, III, and IV, stimulant... 

Further into the body, methamphetamine has been implicated in damages to the kidney and liver. In the kidney, methamphetamine use has been shown to cause acute kidney failure by constriction of the blood vessels that nourish the kidney. In the liver, methamphetamines have been shown to cause direct liver damage both through the drug itself and through the many contaminants street methamphetamine often contains. 

PCP is easy and cheap to manufacture but not very popular, so it is often sold as another drug. Most often, it is sold on the street as THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. In fact, real THC is almost impossible to obtain on the street. PCP might also be sprayed or sprinkled on oregano, parsley, or another herb and sold as marijuana. Alternatively, lower quality marijuana might be laced with PCP to make it seem more potent. Other drugs that PCP is sold as include LSD, cannabinol, mescaline, psilocybin, amphetamine, methamphetamine, peyote, cocaine, Hawaiian woodrose, and other psychedelics. In... 

Methamphetamine is a stimulant drug chemically related to amphetamine but with stronger effects on the central nervous system. Street names for the drug include "speed," "meth," and "crank."... 

ECSTASY" (also known as "XTC" or "E") is the "street" name of one member of a family of amphetamine related drugs which first became popular in the "rave" or modem dance music culture across Europe in the 1980s (Table 1). Its chemical name is 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) closely related drugs include methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) and methylene-dioxyethylamphetamine (MDEA). The chemical structure of this series of drugs and their relationship to older better known stimulants of abuse, amphetamine and methamphetamine, is shown in Figure 1. 

G. Reduction of nationwide average street purity levels for cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine (as estimated by the interagency drug-flow assessment process, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and other national drug-control program agencies) by 60%... 

Cocaine is one of the most popuiar drugs of abuse, it may be sniffed into the nose (snorted), smoked, or injected intravenousiy. Occasionaiiy it is combined with heroin and injected (speedbaii). Cocaine purchased on the street is usuaiiy of high purity, but it may occasionaiiy contain substitute drugs such as iidocaine (see p 74) or stimulants such as caffeine (p 142), methamphetamine (p 72), ephedrine (p 320), or phencyclidine (p 300). 

Anewcomer on the stimulant scene is a drug called cat, which is not the same drug as khat "Cat" is the street name for methcathinone, another member of the methamphetamine family that produces similar effects and is listed on Schedule I. 

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