Posted by Chairman_MAO on September 13, 2005, at 9:12:10
In reply to Re: Amphetamines+OD????, posted by Declan on September 11, 2005, at 23:35:23
There is technically no such thing as a stimulant overdose. People die from secondary complications, usually [cardio]vascular incidents or seizures.
Even in a drug-naive person, if they are healthy it would probably take at LEAST 200mg, probably 300-400mg oral d-amphetamine to kill. I had a psychologist once who in the 1980s treated tons of high-profile, wealthy cocaine and methamphetamine addicts. He told me that most of his meth patients would routinely inject ampoules containing 120mg of methamphetamine hcl. The street name for them was "bombitas", or "little bombs", and they cost a few bucks.
A good book to read if you want to learn basic facts about drug action, lethal doses, history, etc. of popular drugs of use and abuse is Tibor Palfai and Henry Jankiewicz's "Drugs and Human Behavior". There is no finer introductory reference; I was blessed to have both of them as professors at Syracuse University.
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