Amphetamine Abuse Research Paper

Among the physical and mental ill effects of amphetamine abuse are:

Side Effects, Overdose: increased heartbeat, pulse rate and blood pressure, sometimes rising to killer levels.
"Mainlining" Effects: physical collapse, mental im- balance, even death.
Long-Term Use: fatigue due to lack of sleep, mal- nutrition and emaciation due to deadened appetite, loss of self-balance and self-control, loss of a sense of reality, impaired thinking and speech, shattered emotions and unpredictable reactions, occasionally. brain damage which may result in a vegetable-like existence. Fits of violent insanity are common when an abuser gets "strung out," gets to maintain high am- phetamine levels for a long period. He suffers social, emotional, physical,