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Users of rave drug speed are FIVE times
more likely to suffer from psychosis at
some point in their life, study finds

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Posted By: Ribicon, 2/14/2022 9:17:53 PM

People who take the illicit party drug 'speed' are five times more likely to suffer from psychosis at some point in their life, a study suggests. The amphetamine—which is popular in rave culture—was also linked to an increased risk of a host of other mental health conditions, including depression. Researchers looked at medical records and surveys of more than 250,000 people in Taiwan over a 10-year period. People who said they used speed were five times more likely to experience paranoia, voices and hallucinations compared to people who had never tried the drug. Users were also five times more likely to be depressed and three times more

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Perhaps so, but mass dosing of amphetamine analogs such as Ritalin and Adderall to young children is perfectly safe, and has nothing at all to do with them committing violent crimes later in life when heavy doses of perfectly safe SSRI antidepressants are added to the mix. That's Science.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 2/14/2022 9:21:13 PM (No. 1072165)
They call it dope for a reason. And how many of these folks were crazy to start with?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: TLCary 2/14/2022 9:30:07 PM (No. 1072169)
Got to wonder about the cause and effect here. Maybe people who suffer from psychosis are five times more likely to take drugs that haven't been tested for long term side effects and are made in batches with of wildly varying quality and associated side effects... drugs like 'Speed' or the mRNA jabs for example.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: kono 2/15/2022 2:00:24 AM (No. 1072265)
Maybe it's news for a new generation; but the use of 'speed' (meth) is nothing new, nor is the risk of becoming psychotic.
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