When you take amphetamine every day, you incur a debt that can only be repaid by taking a break. If you don't pay back the debt, you enter the risky business of

When you take amphetamine every day, you incur a debt that can only be repaid by taking a break. If you don't pay back the debt, you enter the risky business of increasing your dose and dancing with the loan shark that always collects. So I imagine most chronic amphetamine users like myself have a healthy relationship with it or we'd burn out like the girl in the article which is a rather familiar tale of classic abuse. Amphetamine side-effects never go away. If you're tolerant of the side-effects, you're tolerant of the very effect you're taking it for. In fact, the side-effects are a good indicator of where you are in a dose. The onset of cotton mouth is what reminds you that it's working. Even after a month or two of constant amphetamine use, withdrawal for me is at most a week of some scatterbrained lethargy (paying back that debt). The demons of amphetamine are the side-effects and psychological dependency, not the weak withdrawal. Unfortunately you're susceptible to those demons no matter how long you've been prescribed.