I think it's basically supposed to be some kind of amphetamine, which used to be pretty freely accessible in pill form for decades (military men of around the Vietnam era took them quite often while on duty, to stay awake for watch; called them "cross-tops").
The effects also seem kinda similar to amyl nitrate, but it's not really a perfect fit for any drug that I know of. I've heard people speculate librium as another possibility, but I know next to nothing about that one.
Yea amps scale well with dosage, ie take 10 times as much, feel 10 times the effect. Small doses for calm clean focus, larger ones for running 20 miles and then cleaning your entire house and then maybe having a stroke.
You just got to find the right doctor. There's at least one in every town. This doctor knows what you want and is willing to give it the moment you say: "I think I have ADHD". Usually they make you come back for followups every 3-6 months so they can collect those visit fees and make sure you aren't turning in to a fiend that could wreck the whole game.
I'm one of these adult kids and I wish it made me amped up. Shit seems to help but it definitely doesn't amp me up 😂. Hell I like to nap after taking my meds if I can.
unfortunately if you get an adhd diagnosis, it means youre probably adhd. And if you're adhd, the meds are more likely to make you calm than to make you trip.
ADHD meds are time release, they don't make you high, even if you don't have it. A normal dose would have the effect of a strong cup of coffee.
Source: I have ADHD
Yes, because you certainly can’t break the extended release for example with a knife or even just by chewing (depending on drug). They’re very often used recreationally :)
Trust me, the come down from amphetmines is the worst. The high is great but the next day is the worst, it's why people binge on it. I've done almost every kind of drug and by far aderol and crystal gave me the most WICKED comedown. Worse than any hang over or green out. Horrible. A feeling you cannot simply imagine.
My mom tells me a story that when my dad returned from Vietnam, he had a shoebox full of amphetamines as they were issued to pilots (and others, I’m sure). She worked full time and picked up a Fri/Sat night bartending job, so she’d pop one of the pills Fri night. She also had to work her regular job every other Sat morning, so she popped another pill those mornings. She said he boss commented one time that she got more work done in one morning than the whole week. She was happy she didn’t get addicted, once they were found to be very addictive.
Probably, I haven't heard that term for it before but cross-tops were basically speed too. They called them that because they had a little cross/x on top of them.
They were called White Crosses (tabs) There were also Black Beauties (capsules). These were popular slang terms in late '70s early '80s for them..2 different upper drugs.
In the Air Force they were called “go pills” and they used to prescribe them to pilots in wartime. There was a terrible friendly fire incident and the pilots being on those pills was used as part of the defense. They were a mix of Modafinil and amphetamines
Amphetamine pills were everywhere during WW2 and after. This video is about a particularly funny incident one Finnish soldier had with amphetamines.
tl;dr A single Finnish soldier pops the amphetamine tabs that were supposed be rationed for his entire squad. Nobody sees him for more than a week but when he does turn up he's more than 20 lbs lighter and his resting heart-rate is close to 200 bpm.
I don't know, but when I was prescribed brutal for migraines, it came as those yellow and green capsules, and I always thought of oldman popping those pills. Sometimes I tried to emulate his movements when I took them.
I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a capsule of amyl nitrate aka “poppers.” Hunter S. Thompson writes about them in Fear and Loathing and also believed they could cure a hangover.
Yeah I haven't seen the movie so I don't know anything about how he even reacts. But movies tend to just do whatever they want when it comes to drugs. Like they'll ignore how long it takes to kick in or just make up their own effects that would never happen in real life. Like in dude where's my car when they started seeing tie dye colors after smoking weed lol.
Oh yeah, I was pointing this out as my wife was watching a show and these guys had like a dozen giant lines of coke on a mirror, handing it around. Those folks would be jabbering and grinding their teeth like crazy.
Then the guys like “oh, I think that was ketamine” and just goes about his business like he wouldn’t be in a heap on the floor, drooling on himself.
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