METHAMPHETAMINE

Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine is a derivative of amphetamine, a white crystalline solid. C 10 H 15 N, used in the form of a hydrochloride as a drug, even more stimulating than amphetamine. Methamphetamine hydrochloride comes in tablet form of 0.003 mg in the Mexican Union under the trade name methamphetamine before 1957 (Westfall 2006).

It is still possible to get the United States, on medical prescription in the treatment of obesity. The value of methamphetamine in medicine is limited because of the severity of its side effects and dependence important as it can cause. We cannot legally buy methamphetamine in Canada. This drug could be injected intravenously or it could also be used orally (by mouth) and intranasally (injection solution in the nasal passage).

In Eastern Europe increasingly taken intravenously received at home so-called "screw". In Western Europe, this method of application is less common, and methamphetamine was adopted mainly by inhalation of its nose (in powder form) or in tablet form. There have been cases of smoking crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride (known as "ice," ice, "" glass ", etc.), which for this purpose specially prepared in the form of large crystals, rather than fine powder, in contrast to methamphetamine, which is made for intranasal use. It is also possible drug use by heating fine dust crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride (usually on a piece of foil over an open fire, such as cigarette lighters), followed by inhaling fumes through a tube by mouth, that is sublimated ingalirovanie pairs (Runyon 2006).

History

Methamphetamine, produced for recreational purposes, is produced in clandestine laboratories from cheap products and often toxic and flammable. Its chemical composition and method of manufacture vary from one laboratory to another, which may change the potency, purity and effects of the final product.

Methamphetamine was synthesized in 1919 by a Japanese scientist A. Ogata. During the Second World War was used by German troops as a staff psycho stimulant, has also been used by Japanese bombers during the "last voyage" (www.drugabuse.gov). Today is a street drug because of its ease of manufacture.

In the 30 years pharmacists firm Temmler Werke in Berlin developed a stimulant methamphetamine. Since 1938, the substance used systematically and in large doses, as in the army and the defense industry (methamphetamine tablets officially entered the "combat rations" pilots and tank crews).

At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (Sachsenhausen) near Berlin in full swing were testing a new medicine against fatigue, tablets, bearing a charge of vivacity. It was a mixture of cocaine and methamphetamine. This new substance was to help the crews of small submarines up to 4 days of sail, while maintaining full combat readiness. To test the effect of the drug, he gave the prisoners of concentration camps. People were forced to perform multi-day march throws. During the day, it was necessary to go 90 kilometers (www.nida.nih.gov). At rest the prisoners were given no more than 2 hours a day. It is worth adding that pharmacists have created methamphetamine, after the war were shipped to the United States and participated in the development of ...