Health Effects

• Increased heart and respiratory rates
• Elevated blood pressure
• Sweating
• Headaches
• Blurred vision
• Dizziness
• Sleeplessness and anxiety 
• Rapid or irregular heartbeat
• Tremors
• Poor coordination
• Physical collapse

Physical exertion while using stimulants can be dangerous because of the drugs’ effects on the body’s temperature-regulating and cardiovascular systems and can cause deaths in otherwise healthy young athletes.

Amphetamines can be swallowed in pills or capsules, smoked as crank and ice or injected. An amphetamine injection creates a sudden increase in blood pressure that can result in stroke, very high fever or heart failure. Also, injection using contaminated needles may result in needle-related diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis.