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Warpy

(114,650 posts)
6. Oh, yeah, it was speed.
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 12:20 AM
Feb 2017

it's a combination of amphetamine and theophylline, the upper in tea. It's fairly mild as amphetamines go.

Like Adderall, Captagon was once used to treat behavioral problems.

It was used in the 1960s and 1970s to treat people with attention deficit disorder, Rawson said. It didn't seem to have some of the side effects of other stimulants, he said. But it also didn't have many advantages either, and was eventually phased out, he said.

Despite fizzling out in the United States, the drug has been popular in the Middle East for some time.

Abuse of it has "been a problem in Saudi Arabia now for well over a decade," Rawson said.


http://www.livescience.com/52904-captagon-amphetamine-pill-explainer.html

I couldn't find the English .pdf of the Saudi lab report.

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