BLIMEY DON'T THIS SOUND FAMILIAR
This is a little article I found on the net when I was bored one day and just could not resist the temptation of typing in Dexies on the search engine.
[Please note; I am not glorifying this subject, but it was a big part of the scene at that time and looking back it created some very funny experiences, [Didn't it speckly Kenny???]
SK&F (A lighthearted look at Speed at the foot of the page) SK&F
Increased alertness and energy, feeling of well-being, rapid heart beat and breathing, increased blood pressure, sweating, dilated pupils, dryness of mouth. User may become talkative, restless, excited, feel powerful, superior, aggressive, hostile, or behave in a bizarre, repetitive fashion. develop a love for Northern soul which will never leave them their entire lifetime. Very large doses produce flushing, pallor, very rapid or irregular heart beat, tremors, severe paranoid, frightening hallucinations. Death can result from use as a consequence of burst blood vessels in brain, heart failure, very high fever. Violence, accidental or otherwise, is leading cause of amphetamine-related deaths.
(dextroamphetamine, dexies)
Brown and clear capsule marked "SKF E13" (10mg) or "SKF E14" (15mg); also orange heart-shaped tablet (5mg) marked "SKF E19"
Amphetamines were developed in the 1920's. Used at first to treat depression and obesity, but stringent controls have greatly reduced medical use in Canada.
Chronic heavy users may develop malnutrition, or amphetamine psychosis, a mental illness similar to paranoid schizophrenia. They may be prone to violence. AIDS and other infections from un-sterile needles are common among speed users. Impurities injected with the drug can block or weaken small blood vessels. Kidney damage, lung problems, stoke or other tissue injury can result. instances of withdrawal symptoms among newborn infants of mothers using amphetamines have been documented.
Amphetamines can produce very powerful psychological dependence involving extremely compulsive patterns of use. Physical dependence may also develop. Withdrawal symptoms may include fatigue, long but disturbed sleep, strong hunger, irritability, depression, violence.
Why did we do it?
A lot of reasons really and it was not only Dexies but anything from cheap old silver wrappings of sulphate for a fiver upto "Blues or purple hearts" [Drynamyl] if you were lucky enough to get any". Without these things a lot of the kids were asleep by 3 o/clock at the allnighters.
But with them you not only were able to dance all night long but, talk all night [Verbal diarrhea,] chew at the same speed and at the same time, usually you were unable to eat which was good for the those who struggled with their weight, drank coke and soft drinks [no bar after 11] like a big guppy that's just had a two week holiday in the Sahara. Next day you spent hours biting off the flaps of tongue that you had hacked off the night before by chewing and talking without due care and attention and 4 hours in the pub trying to get drunk to take away that awful "comedown" you had. Sometimes your throat was like you had just swallowed a wasps nest through trying to talk over the music.
Occasionally when I just arrived back home from an allnighter for a change of clothes and a shower, my mum would have saved me a Sunday roast, "come on John you can't go out all day and night without something in your stomach". [thinks] I've got something in my stomach Mum". You had to "try" and eat it to avoid disappointing her but I used to wait for her to go out of the room and then give it to the dog, poor old Rex, no wonder he was so fat.
"but despite all this, we knew what we were doing didn't we?????????????"