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I'm surprised to read that there are recent innovations in illicit techniques of making methamphetamine that mirror legitimate pharmaceutical methods, but only
by hotpotamus 4y ago
I'm surprised to read that there are recent innovations in illicit techniques of making methamphetamine that mirror legitimate pharmaceutical methods, but only because I thought methamphetamine was already a legitimate pharmaceutical to some extent.
https://www.goodrx.com/methamphetamine https://www.goodrx.com/methamphetamine
Other amphetamines are quite well represented at the average pharmacy at least.
- blanketlamp 4y agoI think it’s more that Eli Lilly and co don’t need to deal with the same supply issues/challenges that warrant the innovation. If they want to make Meth, they can probably just get a bunch of pseudoephedrine delivered.
- kevinmchugh 4y agoI don't know chemistry but my reading of the article makes me think the pharmaceutical meth is just the decongestant (L) isomer
- notamy 4y agoPrescription methamphetamine is Desoxyn, which is a CNS stimulant and thus schedule II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desoxyn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desoxyn
- jagraff 4y agoYou can buy the L isomer OTC as a decongestant, but desoxyn is the D isomer, a stimulant, perscribed for ADHD and narcolepsy.