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Speed freak

Stimulants. The first stimulaut, amphetamiue, was introduced in the late 1800s. Over the next 50 years, amphetamines were used to treat a variety of couditious iucludiug depressiou. The stimulauts were easier to tolerate than the TCAs and somewhat safer. Unfortunately, they also produced euphoric effects leading to rampart speed freak abuse iu the 1960s. [Pg.49]

In the 1960s, public health authorities noted the first epidemic of intravenous drug use centered around the Haight-Asbury district of San Francisco, California. Individuals, soon to be known as speed freaks, had learned how to melt amphetamine down and inject the liquefied substance into their veins. [Pg.37]

A College Speed Freak I was a speed freak in college but did not know it, because a doctor got me to take it and never told me I could pet hooked. 1 was about thirty pounds ov -we-yh -nd had ncvc been... [Pg.184]

In addition. Speed freaks often suffer an acute state of paranoia. Friends who used to take speed imagined that people were staring at them through windows and whenever they weren t looking. The natural uneasiness-nervousness that comes from Speed is intensified by fear of getting caught or busted. [Pg.7]

Wow Strike ought to consider taking up speed as a second habit. Those reductions looked freaking easy ... [Pg.204]


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