Street Names: Speed, Sulph, whiz, Billy, uppers, base, paste
Looks Like: Usually powder form, but can come in tablets and can be prepared as a liquid for injection. Colours differ depending on what the drug has been mixed with and are usually - pinkish, white, cream, pale brown.
Category: Upper
Effects:
- Speeds up the nervous system, heart rate and breathing.
- Makes you feel wide awake and raring to go.
- Makes you feel more confident.
- Loss of appetite.
Risks:
- Regular use can lead to damage to the nose and your teeth rotting!
- Damage to veins and risk of infection if injected.
- Weight loss.
- Paranoia and irritable.
- Panic attacks.
- Can lead to mental illness.
- Tiredness and depression.
- High blood pressure, heart problems, possibility of a stroke.
- Users quickly build up a tolerance so they need to take more and more just to get the same hit.
- Speed is often called “a dirty drug” because it’s less than 5% pure and is mixed with a lot of rubbish including other pills, dog worming tablets, brick dust, ground glass and talcum powder. If it’s cut with other pills, there is the added danger of having a reaction to the drug that it’s cut with.
