Amphetamine is a stimulant that speeds up the central nervous system, often used to treat ADHD. Users experience heightened alertness, energy, and concentration. However, it can also induce adverse effects like nervousness, rapid heartbeat, and can contribute to severe psychological issues if abused.

This is the most crucial rule to follow! When you use stimulants, they will temporarily hijack your dopamine reward system. Once the peak euphoria starts to fade, you will have a biological response to crave more. This is the same system that makes you crave food, sex, and anything pleasurable in life and is extremely hard to fight against. This feeling tends to disappear as soon as you have fully come down around the 10-12 hour mark (and in fact the thought of redosing actually starts to feel kinda gross). You simply need to endure through a few hours of cravings and then you’re home free. Not to mention that redosing will amplify your comedown side effects exponentially. It’s simply NOT worth it when you could just eat, sleep, and have an awesome time dosing the next morning instead.

Most stimulants suppress appetite heavily and its actually surprisingly easy to begin starving by accident during a long binge. In fact, many people are shocked to discover that the vast majority of the 24-hour comedown symptoms of meth and amphetamines are actually just a result of poor nutrition or hydration. What helps a lot is setting an alarm to go off on your phone every 2 hours from the moment you dose to remind you to eat and drink. It sounds silly, but when you’re peaking on stimulants you can easily get locked into whatever you’re doing, sometimes for hours or days. This alarm will shift your focus away from whatever you’re doing and provide an opportunity to break away and grab a snack with a glass of water. I know it’s easy to eat a ton of fruit and sweets while on stimulants, but please try to eat a variety of nutritious food instead. When all else fails, a big glass of milk is an excellent source of protein and nutrients.

Sometimes while using amphetamines you may encounter a horrible stench of ammonia that seems to soak into every piece of clothing. A lot of people think this is just due to excessive sweating, but it is actually a byproduct of rhabdomyolysis happening in your body and is a clear sign that you need to eat ASAP. When you take a stimulant that suppresses appetite you often don’t eat much (potentially for days) and so your body needs to look elsewhere for energy and nutrients. It does this by metabolizing your own muscles into protein, resulting in the loss of that muscle. The byproduct of this is ammonia, which is toxic to your body. As a result, your body tries to get rid of it as quick as possible, either through urine or sweat. This can also happen from dehydration as well, though eating usually gives your body some water as well. If you follow tip #2 you will notice that you don’t smell horrible at the end of the day (apart from the regular body odor that comes with sweating).

Most stimulants suppress appetite heavily. This doesn’t mean that your body suddenly doesn’t need food, its just temporarily unable to use the mesolimbic reward pathway to signal hunger in the way you typically recognize it. As a result, long binges or daily use can lead people down a dangerous road to starvation without even realizing it. If you find yourself in a situation like this, you need to pay attention to the other ways that your body is trying to signal to you that it desperately needs food. Often these signals can ‘seem’ like a need to redose, but this is misguided. If you suddenly find that your high has started to take a more anxious, numb, or unpleasant experience, this likely is a sign! 

These protein shakes may save your life! Each one contains around 360 calories and 25% daily value of most essential vitamins and minerals. They are shockingly easy to drink, even when you’re so high that it feels like you need to relearn how to swallow. If you are a daily user or prone to binges, you absolutely must keep these stocked in your fridge! If you find yourself in a situation like tip #3 and are unable to eat anything, these shakes just might prevent a trip to the hospital. Just make sure not to drink more than 3 in a day as they contain many fat soluble vitamins (Vit A, D, E, K) and you can definitely overdose on those. I would also avoid any multivitamins for 24 hours if you decide to drink a few of these shakes as that could also lead to vitamin overdose.

There is preclinical evidence that magnesium glycinate has the potential to block both sensitization and tolerance to stimulants. This is due to magnesium being an NMDA antagonist. It also replenishes an essential electrolyte that you brain uses for nearly every function, and which stimulants deplete heavily. In fact, did you know that 70% of Americans are already deficient in magnesium due to poor soil quality? The symptoms of deficiency are anxiety, depression, depersonalization, headache, and more!

If you notice vomiting, muscle aches, or blacking out while standing up, then grab a Gatorade or Powerade and chug it! Stimulants tend to deplete electrolytes faster than usual because of the strain they put on your body. Just be careful to not overdo it, as too many electrolytes can cause it's own problems.

Amphetamine has a habit of making you feel invincible and impulsive. In the moment you feel so confidence that the future really is of no concern to you… but this is an illusion… and pretty soon you’ll be dealing with the consequences while sober (gasp!). If you are about to make a big purchase, sign a contract, propose, or any other big decision, you should really just save it for the next morning no matter how confident you feel about it. And when selecting sexual partners ALWAYS use protection and ask yourself if you would actually have sex with this person if you were sober.

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Amphetamines are potent neurostimulants, increasing the levels of certain neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain. This can lead to short-term neurological effects like insomnia, restlessness, and hyperactivity. Long-term use can cause more severe neurological effects such as memory problems, cognitive deficits, and the development of a severe condition called amphetamine psychosis, which includes symptoms like paranoia, hallucinations, and delusions.

The rewarding effects of amphetamines make them highly addictive. Regular use can lead to physical and psychological dependence, where the user requires increasing amounts to achieve the same effects (tolerance) and experiences uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms when not using. Addiction to amphetamines can severely impact an individual's personal and professional life, often leading to social, financial, and legal problems.

Regular amphetamine use can cause a range of physical health problems, including malnutrition due to suppressed appetite, dental problems ('meth mouth'), skin sores from intense itching and scratching, and weight loss. In extreme cases, amphetamine abuse can lead to hyperthermia (dangerously high body temperature) and convulsions, which can be fatal if not treated promptly.

Amphetamine use, particularly in high doses or during binge episodes, can lead to impaired judgment and increased impulsivity, leading to risky behaviors such as unprotected sex, driving under the influence, or aggressive behavior. This can result in negative social and legal consequences, such as damaged relationships, job loss, and legal trouble.

Amphetamines have a profound effect on the cardiovascular system. They can elevate heart rate, blood pressure, and disrupt heart rhythm, which may lead to serious conditions such as hypertension, myocardial infarction (heart attack), stroke, and in severe cases, sudden death. Chronic use can lead to cardiovascular disease and cardiac arrest due to the sustained stress on the heart and blood vessels.

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