Question by blizzard7: What is Methamphetamine Hydrocloride?
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Answer by tenfootflames
What is “ice”?
”Ice” is a street name for crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride, which is a powerful, synthetic stimulant drug. Stimulant drugs speed up the messages going to and from the brain.
Ice is more potent than other forms of amphetamines. It is more pure than the powder form of methamphetamine (“speed”).
Ice often appears as large, transparent and “sheet-like” crystals that may have a hint of pink, blue or green colour.
Other street names for ice include “meth”, “d-meth”, “crystal”, “crystal meth”, “shabu” “batu”, “tina” and “glass”.
How is it used?
Ice is known to be smoked, swallowed, snorted, injected or inserted anally (“shafting”). Some people smoke ice using a glass pipe, while others heat it on aluminium foil and inhale the vapours (“chasing”).
Ice use in Australia
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In 2004, 3.2 per cent of Australians aged 14 years and older had used amphetamines for nonmedical purposes in the previous year and over 38 per cent of this group reported the type of amphetamine they used was ice. 1
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Ice use among injecting drug users increased from 15 per cent in 2000 to 52 per cent in 2004. 2
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In 2004, 63 per cent of a sample of people who used ecstasy had tried ice at least once and 45 per cent had used ice in the past 6 months. 3
What are the effects of ice?
The effects of any drug (including ice) vary from person to person, depending on the individual’s size, weight and health, how much and how the drug is taken, whether the person is used to taking it and whether other drugs are taken. Effects also depend on the environment in which the drug is used—such as whether the person is alone, with others or at a party.
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