Methamphetamine
Part of the amphetamine family of stimulant drugs
Also called:
- Crank
- Crystal Meth
- Glass
- Ice
- Meth
- Tina And Christine
- Yaba
Quick info
How the drug works varies from person to person
- How you might feel
- Exhilarated, aroused, alert, paranoid, confused, aggressive and disinhibition.
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- Effects on your body
- Increased heart rate and increased blood pressure.
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- How long it takes to work
- Smoking or injecting it produces an intense high immediately.
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- How long the effects last
- Effects can last 4-12 hours.
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- Common risks
- Easy to want more and take larger doses over many hours or even days. Can increase risk taking, for example high risk sexual behaviour. Can lead to severe psychosis and increases the chance of heart attack or stroke.
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- Mixing drugs
- Mixing drugs is always risky but some mixtures are more dangerous than others.
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