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Hur lätt är det att överdosera och dö på amfetamin?

Kort sagt: Jävligt svårt.
Långt sagt:
“Amphetamine induces tolerance that develops slowly; dose can increase progressively, so that amounts
several hundredfold greater than the original therapeutic dose may eventually be ingested or injected. Tolerance to various effects develops unequally, so that tachycardia and enhanced alertness diminish but psychotoxic effects, such as hallucinations and delusions, may occur. However,
even massive doses are rarely fatal.
Long-term users have reportedly injected as much as
15,000 mg of amphetamine in 24 h without observable acute illness.”
Source: “Amphetamine Dependence”, The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Section 15.Psychiatric Disorders, Chapter 195.Drug Use and Dependence, Merck & Co. Inc., from the web at http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section15/chapter195/195g.htm last accessed November 30, 2000.
Bara för att jag är en riktig jävel var jag tvungen att posta detta här också:
Marijuana:
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Tetrahydrocannabinol is a very safe drug. Laboratory animals (rats, mice, dogs, monkeys) can tolerate doses of up to
1,000 mg/kg (milligrams per kilogram). This would be equivalent to a
70 kg person swallowing
70 grams of the drug—about
5,000 times more than is required to produce a high. Despite the widespread illicit use of cannabis there are very few
if any instances of people dying from an overdose. In Britain, official government statistics listed
five deaths from cannabis in the period 1993-1995
but on closer examination these proved to have been deaths due to inhalation of vomit that could not be directly attributed to cannabis (House of Lords Report, 1998).
By comparison with other commonly used recreational drugs these statistics are impressive.”
Source: Iversen, Leslie L., PhD, FRS, “The Science of Marijuana” (London, England: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 178, citing House of Lords, Select Committee on Science and Technology, “Cannabis — The Scientific and Medical Evidence” (London, England: The Stationery Office, Parliament, 1998).
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http://www.drug-rehabs.org/articles.php?aid=438
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