Name: The Drug To Master Reality
Uploaded: 2026-01-12T16:59:15.000Z
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Amphetamines can drive you through brutal work shifts, push you through boring study sessions, or keep you dancing till dawn.

We've given them to soldiers to fight harder and to children to help them focus.

Today, millions of brains are running faster than evolution had ever planned.

In the last 15 years, amphetamines have become one of the fastest growing drug markets in the world, second only to cannabis.

Like any drug, amphetamines can be used to escape reality.

But unlike any other, they promise to help us master our modern world.

And what happens to your body once you take them?

Supercharging your brain Almost everything humans do relies on focus and motivation.

Whether you're working, playing, studying, creating, working out, partying or fighting, you need to push through exhaustion, silence, distractions, and

Amphetamines are stimulants and do just this extremely well.

They come in three main plain amphetamine, methamphetamine and mdma.

Meth is an extremely potent and addictive version, and MDMA or ecstasy has some quite unique effects.

But today, we'll focus on plain amphetamine, sold on the street as speed or as prescription drugs like Adderall or Vyvanse.

The main effect of amphetamines is to trick your brain to massively increase the levels of dopamine and noradrenaline.

Dopamine is the chemical of motivation and excitement.

Like the rush when you're about to beat that impossible boss in a souls game, noradrenaline makes your mind awake, focused, alert and sharp, able to precisely and quickly move your fingers to perform the combo that destroys the boss.

Dopamine says yes, this matters, and noradrenaline gives you the tools to make it happen.

On amphetamines, you aren't simply excited, but plugged into a hidden power source.

You can quickly absorb and react to everything around you.

In the best case, you enter a state of flow easily.

Your mood is lifted and boring tasks seem more engaging.

Distractions become less distracting in the face of your goals.

Your heart pounds faster, your breath quickens and sweat beads on your skin.

Other stimulants, like cocaine, peak or fade quickly, may be crashing you and leaving you more tired than before.

But amphetamines lift you up and hold you there for four to 14 hours.

Back in the day, amphetamines used to be prescribed for all kinds of problems to lose weight, fix your depression, or against nasal congestion.

Nowadays, they're Mainly prescribed for adhd, a mental disorder that makes it hard to concentrate on things you find boring and to control your impulses.

ADHD brains are basically looking for a reward that never comes.

Amphetamines solve this by providing this reward, turning a super easily distracted scatter brain into a focused one.

In the last decades, ADHD diagnoses in kids and adults in the US have skyrocketed, leading to an unprecedented amount of prescription amphetamines.

Performance enhancing tools, perfectly aligned with our most mainstream ambitions.

And if they manage to keep you awake and focused better than coffee or energy drinks, why not get your daily performance boost with a dose of amphetamines?

They're made in labs, prescribed by doctors, and safely taken by millions, after all.

So their legal and illegal use has surged in many workplaces, particularly in very stressful or highly competitive industries that require long hours and intense focus.

From tech to finance bros, from cooks or truck drivers to surgeons or nurses.

In the US alone, more than 4 million people illegally use prescription stimulants.

Especially college students have started to rely on them more and more.

Not to party, but to push for better grades.

Concentrating and studying are hard enough on their own, but

even more so in times where short form videos and endless scrolling have nuked our attention spans.

Some believe they have undiagnosed adhd, that their struggle to concentrate is a flaw that needs chemical fixing.

Or they simply want an easy edge to achieve more.

Imagine you're cramming for finals, someone offers you a pill and the fog in your brain lifts.

Eight hours vanish in a hyper focus blur.

This is starting to sound like a commercial, but

the frank reality is that amphetamines promise an easy fix to things that many of us struggle with.

But of course, nothing good in life comes for free.

Speed crash the dark side of amphetamines comes in two unpleasant side effects and serious health risks.

The least negative bad experience may be that amphetamines work, just not for the right thing.

Instead of finally writing the paper that's due tomorrow, you hyper focus on grinding your game.

Congrats on the new item, but you'll still fail your class.

More serious is that noradrenaline puts your body into fight or flight mode, which can make you feel nervous, tense and on edge.

Your heart beats faster and your breaths are shorter, which is exactly how your body feels when you experience anxiety or panic.

Suddenly you feel extremely worried or can't stop ruminating if you're already pretty stressed or anxious.

This can worsen your anxiety or even lead to a full blown panic attack.

On the other hand, your motivation can overshoot, Your patience shrinks to almost zero.

And you can feel wired and very annoyed at people because they speak and think too slowly, making you jittery and pretty unpleasant to others.

Amphetamines also make you numb towards the needs of your body, so it's easy to forget that you need to drink, eat and sleep.

You may suddenly realize that you're totally dehydrated, tired and shaky.

And after neglecting your body's needs for hours and hours.

And while amphetamines lengthen the time, you can stay awake and be productive.

If you took them too late in the day or too much, it may just be impossible to get to sleep as your mind can't stop racing, making you exhausted the next day, tempting you to solve the problem with another dose.

If you take too much, all the enhancing effects can reverse, leaving you nervous, restless, obsessively overthinking, or outright unable to focus on anything.

Some prescription amphetamines like Vyvanse, stay active in your system for up to 14 hours.

So if you have a bad trip, you may have to wait it out.

And the comedown can also be pretty harsh.

After hours of being bathed in dopamine and noradrenaline, their levels drop.

Your mood can crash, leaving you feeling low energy and depressed.

You may experience a fresh boost of anxiety as your brain tries to rebalance itself.

First of all, constant artificial dopamine highs can totally disrupt your emotional baseline.

Swinging from euphoric and super focused and driven to stressed and tired is pretty unpleasant.

If you take amphetamines regularly, you build a tolerance, needing higher doses to achieve the same effects, which raises the risk for all the negative effects.

Maybe at the beginning, amphetamines were the solution to finally do your homework.

But after a while, you just feel completely unable to study or work at all.

Without the boost they give you, it can be hard to get back to your normal baseline afterwards.

The flood of chemicals that boosts your brain can overwhelm it, mixing noise and signal and turning clarity into chaos, leading to psychosis.

You can no longer tell for sure what's real and what's not.

Typical symptoms are bizarre thoughts, hallucinations and paranoia.

In most cases, they fade once the drug wears off, but

sometimes they stay for months and for a minority of people, they can evolve into full fledged schizophrenia, changing your life forever.

Amphetamines speed up your heart and over time, even mild increases in blood pressure can damage vessel walls, causing them to thicken, narrow and lose elasticity, which forces your heart to work harder.

If you use them long term, this can lead to serious complications like cardiac arrest or an irregular heartbeat.

And in high enough doses, especially mixed with other stimulants like cocaine, amphetamines can trigger heart attacks, tear open major arteries or burst blood vessels in your brain, leading to strokes, even in young people.

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