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To: alanrs who wrote (402628)	1/9/2011 9:28:53 AM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (3) of 793838

Used to be you could get White Crosses and Black Beauties pretty easily. Both were prescription drugs although I don't recall the real names for the compounds and don't have an old PDR laying around. Anyway, I'm guessing they were available because they were commonly prescribed (to somebody, by somebody, for something) and that some people found it a better proposition to sell them than take them. Or a certain portion of the manufacturing run was siphoned off, somehow. Black Beauties also called Black Mollies were Biphatamine-T (sp?) A blend of amphetamine salts. White crosses were the Desoxin tablets. Today a mix of amphetamine salts is called Adderal. Widely prescribed today. A substitute for the amphetamine class is Ritalin. Many users of such stimulates prefer Ritalin to the amphetamines. I understand the effect to more closely resemble cocaine than amphetamine. My son had a real problem with this one. We'd get his prescription filled and it would be gone in a few days. We discovered that he would grind them up and sniff them. Dexedrine is also prescribed today. I have a bottle of those that my doctor prescribed to me for ADD. The bottle is about two years old. I haven't taken any for more than a year. When I do it simply reduces my desire for coffee. So instead of thirty to 40 cups of coffee, I'll drink 4 or 5 in a day. The stimulate class of substances works well for our government. World War II could not have achieved what it did without it. If you watch news reals from toward the end of the war, you'll see that people looked like skin and bones on both sides. In the first Gulf War, the pilots of the B2 bombers were given Desoxin tablets and told to medicate as needed to stay alert during the thirty hour long flight. When it's time to "get 'er done" our military knows how to.

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