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To: kumar who wrote (4325)	12/20/2002 7:24:33 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 6901

Are amphetamines illegal these days? I haven't taken them in years, used to take diet pills. I doubt that the military would prescribe them if they were actually illegal - they are probably just really hard to get. My guess is that the people who get in trouble for using them actually are abusing them. The tolerance level goes up so you want more. And some people are not wired exactly right to begin with.

To: kumar who wrote (4325)	12/20/2002 8:20:48 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

Hi kumar_rangan; Re: "Help me understand - so why are USAF pilots who presumably control some expensive machinery, in addition to their lives, fed the damn thing [i.e. speed]?" The short answer is that they'd be even worse at controlling that expensive equipment if they were asleep, as opposed to drugged, but awake. The long answer is that "speed" or other similar drugs have long been given to soldiers. Coffee has been around for a long time. I was under the impression that the usual speed lab now makes a drug using a recipe that was invented in WW2, which saw wide use of speed: Amphetamines, otherwise known as 'speed', are chemically made stimulant drugs. Amphetamines were issued to combat troops in WW2 to keep them fighting in the absence of food. addaction.org.uk Amphetamines were widely used in other countries during WW2 and after. Hitler himself became an amphetamine addict during WW2, even though he already had that paranoid mindset a long time before. Soldiers in the USA, England and Germany were given amphetamine pills by their governments. taima.org -- Carl