Methamphetamine Today
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Methamphetamine Today
Methamphetamine is at its molecular level: n-methyl-1-phenyl-2-amine.] Methamphetamine is a highly addictive stimulant. A lot of different sources trace the beginning of methamphetamine to different times of creation and different creators, but I am going with methamphetamine or meth for short was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by a scientist named Nagayoshi Nagai. Meth was synthesized from the precursor chemical known as ephedrine. Many sources say methamphetamine started with Germany, while others say Japan. Either way Methamphetamine has had a big impact on the world.
In Nazi Germany millions of doses of methamphetamine were distributed to infantry in the form of capsules called Pervitin. Pervitin was also sold to the German public in 1938. Over the counter methamphetamine became very popular at that point. The Methamphetamine pills were also used because it was Nazi Germanys way of creating their “super soldiers”. The Germans were not the only country using amphetamines to “jack up” their soldiers. The United States military also used them on our soldiers, as well as the Japanese military. (Howstuffworks, 1998-2013).
Post war Japan was the first to experience a widespread meth epidemic. The epidemic then spread to Guam, and then the United States Marshall islands, and then it spread to the west coast of the United States. Biker gangs and students began cooking the drug and using it and distributing it. (Vermont Department of Health, 2013)
In 1970 Methamphetamine is regulated in the Controlled Substances Act. Drug counselors and drug prevention programs are put forth to try to curb the addiction of Methamphetamine. Then in the 1980’s forms of crystal meth are introduced that can be smoked. Mexican methamphetamine manufacturers also begin to import large quantities of crystal methamphetamine from south of the border. Drug counselors come to find an increase in abuse of methamphetamine by homosexual men. All the while the meth...
Methamphetamine is at its molecular level: n-methyl-1-phenyl-2-amine.] Methamphetamine is a highly addictive stimulant. A lot of different sources trace the beginning of methamphetamine to different times of creation and different creators, but I am going with methamphetamine or meth for short was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by a scientist named Nagayoshi Nagai. Meth was synthesized from the precursor chemical known as ephedrine. Many sources say methamphetamine started with Germany, while others say Japan. Either way Methamphetamine has had a big impact on the world.
In Nazi Germany millions of doses of methamphetamine were distributed to infantry in the form of capsules called Pervitin. Pervitin was also sold to the German public in 1938. Over the counter methamphetamine became very popular at that point. The Methamphetamine pills were also used because it was Nazi Germanys way of creating their “super soldiers”. The Germans were not the only country using amphetamines to “jack up” their soldiers. The United States military also used them on our soldiers, as well as the Japanese military. (Howstuffworks, 1998-2013).
Post war Japan was the first to experience a widespread meth epidemic. The epidemic then spread to Guam, and then the United States Marshall islands, and then it spread to the west coast of the United States. Biker gangs and students began cooking the drug and using it and distributing it. (Vermont Department of Health, 2013)
In 1970 Methamphetamine is regulated in the Controlled Substances Act. Drug counselors and drug prevention programs are put forth to try to curb the addiction of Methamphetamine. Then in the 1980’s forms of crystal meth are introduced that can be smoked. Mexican methamphetamine manufacturers also begin to import large quantities of crystal methamphetamine from south of the border. Drug counselors come to find an increase in abuse of methamphetamine by homosexual men. All the while the meth...