Sentence examples for amphetamine from inspiring English sources
noun
The racemic freebase of amphetamine, the chemical with an IUPAC name of "1-phenylpropan-2-amine"; equal parts of the levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine stereoisomers in their pure amine forms.
There were no traces recorded in the city for the other three drugs tested – cannabis, methamphetamine and amphetamine.
By 13 he was snorting up to seven grammes of amphetamine a day.
Hospital presentations and treatment episodes for amphetamine use have also increased.
Cocaine-takers may move to powder amphetamine or crystal meth; heroin addicts experiment with oxycodone.
That suggests dealers may be switching one for the other: 5mg of meth would give a similar hit to 30mg of amphetamine, and it is more addictive to boot.
As a bonus, one of those three also stimulated the production of antibodies against another widely used drug, amphetamine.
People aged between 15 and 34 no longer hold the big-country record for amphetamine use.
Between 2010 and 2012 seizures of older synthetic amphetamine-style drugs, mostly methamphetamine, or "crystal meth", doubled, largely because of demand in Africa, Asia and South America. In America and Britain where the authorities conduct regular surveys of drug-taking, cocaine use has fallen steeply since around 2008.
The most common of these drugs is Ritalin, an amphetamine-like stimulant (which, curiously, calms hyperactive people), but two others are also widely prescribed.
At the same time, local production of amphetamine-type stimulants such as ecstasy is growing, too.
Yemeni offices tend to be deserted after 2pm, as workers retire to chew the amphetamine-loaded leaves of a shrub called qat (pronounced "chat").
