Drugs - My Experience with 'Speed'

I do plan to write several articles from a personal standpoint on recreational drugs that I have tried in the past; this first one will be Amphetamine or ‘Speed’.

I need to say firstly that the content below is based on my opinion and my experiences. I neither approve nor condone the taking of Class A/B/C drugs that are illegal and everything mentioned will be purely from a personal viewpoint. There is a little bad language below. Nippers should not read this article.

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I did a quick web check on this particular substance and the first entry I found said:

Speed, or amphetamine, is a highly addictive medication used to enhance wakefulness and focus. Speed has many effects on the body, including decreasing fatigue and appetite in most users.

My first reaction to this is that the first claim is utter bollocks. I would say quite the reverse, the downer on ‘Speed’ is bad enough to put you off taking it again for several weeks, or in my case it certainly was.

I have @trolleydave to thank for introducing me to several Class A and Class B drugs, but that’s not in any negative context. My experimentation happened around 20 years ago, it is well and truly in the past and I don’t use anything at all now.

My Story with ‘Speed’

It all started with LSD and not Speed. We were supposed to be buying some ‘Buddha’s’ from the local psychotic drug dealer who lived in the mountains of North Wales and who was a fanatic ‘Tekken’ player on the consoles of those days.

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I will write about LSD in another article but suffice to say, ‘Mr Mental Case’ did not have the intended goods when we arrived and offered me this enormous rock of ‘Speed’ as an alternative. It was much bigger than my fist and appeared to be solid Amphetamine.

‘The Rock’ didn’t look unlike the huge non-Amphetamine crystal I have used for the main picture of this article.

How pure was it? I have no idea, but I purchased it off Mental Case anyway as he may just have nutted @trolleydave and me and if we had refused his offer.

‘Sixty quid mate and it’s yours’, we took the rock and left.

@trolleydave had tried ‘Speed’ before and knew the drill.

‘Use these Rizla’s and break some off to make a bomb’, he advised me.

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A ‘bomb’ is some powdered Speed wrapped in a Rizla. The stuff tastes bloody awful; you really don’t want to experience it.

So bombs we made and rather large ones too. I remember giving @trolleydave this large marble sized bomb and him stating, ‘You want to fucking kill me mate?’

It was all amiable of course and so we tried ‘The Rock’.

How I Felt

It seemed Mental Case had sold me good stuff, as within 20 minutes I could feel my heart racing faster and was starting to get ‘The Jaw’.

There’s some bad stuff written about 'The Jaw' but honestly it’s not so bad at all, and only hangs around for a few minutes. It does sneak up on you though and the clenching happens without you realising it. A little focus takes it away.

45 minutes and I was feeling alive, concentration levels up and everything was heavily in focus. When it hits, you certainly know about it. There’s nothing subtle about your first Speed rush.

This stuff makes you want to talk. Jibber Jabber Yabber… anyone around will get a load of chatter from you whether you know them or otherwise. If they don’t want to talk to you it really doesn’t matter. You ARE going to talk whether they like it or not.

The Downer

The big high of speed for me lasted around 3 hours. Coming down is not very pleasant. The chatter dries up and you feel a little depressed. There are ways to counter the downer which I will explain in my next article.

The other bad thing is that you can’t sleep! Expect to be up all night if you take this stuff. Sleep just won’t come whatever you do.

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We did ‘Speed’ many times during the nineties which consisted of me taking a bomb around 8pm, arriving at @trolleydave’s place at 9pm, staying up all night and all the next day.

Waiting for it to ‘wear off’ can be boring; bring something good to do.

Your appetite disappears and everything tastes like ‘cardboard’. I always had a hearty meal before a session. I suffered from headaches too, possibly due to lack of food the day after.

Weeing is a problem, your tubes constrict and going to the toilet while not unpleasant is slower than usual. You tend to shrivel up ‘down there' too.

Your body emits a funny smell. While it’s not unpleasant, it’s very distinctive. Your body is flushing out the chemicals through your pores.

The Health Effects

It uses your energy; that is a fact and makes you tired once it has worn off. It also gave me heartburn, something I previously didn’t have and is still an ongoing issue today with me.

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I still blame Speed for the kidney stone I developed in 1998. It took six months to pass, a failed NHS operation which left me pissing slower, but I haven’t had another stone since. It decided to pass itself a week after the operation.

I daren’t tell the doctors about my suspicions on why this stone had appeared in my body.

Is it Addictive?

As I mentioned above, a resounding NO! If you have read all I have written it would seem to you as the reader like there are no benefits.

It makes you feel REALLY great for a while! That is the benefit and enough to make you want to take more but not without a sizable break.

Think about an alcohol hangover. Does it make you want to quit and never have a drink again? The next day for sure it does, but we forget over time.

As I recall our ‘heavy sessions’ were around SIX weeks apart. You tell me if that’s an addiction.

My Take on ‘Speed’

It’s not a clean drug. Its chemical based and you don’t know what the hell is in that powder or crystal.

Would I do Speed now? Not a chance, but I have no regrets. We had some laughs and did nobody any harm except ourselves using it. My memories are more good than bad.

What happened to the Rock?

That rock literally lasted several YEARS! It was HUGE and we didn’t particularly want to kill ourselves by overdosing. Yes you can overdose on Speed.

After around 3 years, the rock had gotten smaller in size and one of us had this idea to mix the remains with Glucose.

‘It will make it last longer’, mentioned @trolleydave.

It certainly did and transformed it into ‘Madman’. If anyone has seen Pulp Fiction where John Travolta is trying to buy some drugs and buys the ‘Madman’ then this is a similar situation, except our Speed magically changed to 'Madman'!

Subsequent bombs we ingested now produced an even bigger hit! The Madman eventually was used up around 2004, after sitting on a shelf for around 4 years untouched.

We were not sure if it had a shelf life. There was no expiry date. Our last session proved as heavy as the rest. It appears that 'Madman' lasts indefinately.

Not a bad purchase for £60 when it lasts 8 years?

All stock photographs I have used are filtered as ‘Labelled for reuse’ or 'Labelled for noncommercial reuse' and the sources have been cited.