Talk:Amphetamine/Archive 1

message: What does Severe Tounge and Severe Teeth mean as a side effect?  Either this needs to be reworded, removed, corrected. --67.189.4.167 02:33, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Side Effects 

message: :Doesnt smoking ritalin and dexadrine make you impotent??? (most common method).
Here (Europe) smoking isn't at all common, and snorting is usual. --Taw
In eastern Europe the most usual is injecting Methamphetamine. -- DA
:First marketed in 1932 by the U.S. Army Air Corps in Britain during World War II. 
There was no World War II in 1932.
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I find it VERY problematic to speak about "positive", "neutral" and "negative" effects of anything (not only of a drug). This is NOT OBJECTIVE, not from the neutral point-of-view, as Wikipedia should be.
I think, it would be good to agree on some common scheme to describe drugs, which could include (please improve and move to a better location - under Drug or even Pharmacology ?):
History
Chemistry
(ev. Biology)
Pharmacology (effects and mechanisms of action, including dangers due to behavioral change (as traffic accidents, 
aggressive beh. etc.))
Toxicology (harmful effects by the drug itself)
Accepted medical applications
Sociology - including all the non-medical apps. (common use in different socienties - of course, the medical apps. are a part of this also)
Law (globally)
-- DA
In my experience, taking small doses of dextroamphetamine for adhd resulted in a considerable loss of appetite, and I believe this is common, contrary to the "Neutral effects" section.
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Is "speed" the same as amphetamine proper, or does it describe all amphetamines? What other amphetamines are there? AxelBoldt 15:32, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: In the United States, I believe speed generally refers to methamphetamine.  ElBenevolente 18:50, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other 

message: The layout looks awful, can someone do something about this?  Night Gyr 19:46, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  layout 

message: The methamphetamine article looks better than this article.  Why not just make the pages almost identical, since amphetamine and methamphetamine are exactly the same thing, but meth is more potent due to its ability to cross the blood-brain barrier more rapidly.
Amphetamine and Methamphetamine are NOT exactly the same thing. You need to learn some chemistry, guy. Do you know how to compare molecules?
Making the pages absolutely identical would be insanely stupid. These two drugs are VERY closely related to each other; no doubt. But they are *NOT* the same. There are all kinds of drugs that are VERY closely related to amphetamine and methamphetamine (take methcathinone, cathinone, ephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine for example). The only differences in each of those are VERY minor; do you want to make those pages exactly identical too?
--Ddhix 2002 03:30, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: How long has the merge request for Dextroamphetamine been here? We should really have an article for Amphetamines and another for Amphetamine. magicOgre 03:27, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving the page layout 

message: Far, far too many question marks in the tables on the right. More information about amphetamine abuse and more historical/detailed information (related information on the meth- and dextro- variants, the difference beween amphetamine and other similar substances such as phentermine or Ritalin, etc.) Should be more like the Methamphetamine page and should feature a more prominent link to this page for abuse information.
:I think this belongs on the talk page. Matt 19:26, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  From the article. 

message: I've tidied the page up a little.  Anyone object to the removal of the clean-up tag?  Marcus22 20:18, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: yeah looks a lot nicer now than feb this year, still needs work. ive removed Severe Tounge and Severe Teeth side effects. Agnte 13:17, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean up

message: is there a reason why Amphetamine isn't bolded in the intro?--BBLove 06:54, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  bold