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- From: kirker@ix.netcom.com (Jeffrey Kirk)
- Newsgroups: alt.psychoactives
- Subject: Ephedrine horror story
- Date: 27 Feb 1995 04:46:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <3irlf2$t6j@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
-
- Until the weekend before last, I assumed that Ephedrine was a relatively
- safe and harmless way to perk up without any unusual side effects. Then
- something happened which most definitely changed my mind.
-
- During the course of an evening, I had consumed a fair amount of alcohol
- (7-8 drinks over several hours), smoked a bowl of pot, and had taken 8
- Ephedrine tablets. Then I decided to drive from my home in Austin down
- to visit a friend in San Antonio. I really wasn't that drunk, and I
- wasn't still particularly stoned, so I assumed I'd be fine. I was
- wrong.
-
- One second I'm leaving my house, and literally the next thing I know
- it's 45 minutes later and I'm driving off the road and colliding with a
- barbed wire fence. Conscious thought and memory hit me in one sudden,
- horrifying moment. Though I can clearly remember everything after that
- moment (which occurred as I slammed into the fence), there's about 45
- minutes before that point which I have absolutely no recollection of.
- Somehow I ended up on a country road in the middle of nowhere where I
- most definitely should NOT have been; I was on the wrong road and I had
- no idea why I would be on it. There's one route I take to San Antonio,
- and that wasn't it. I can't really say it was a blackout, though,
- because I was conscious the entire time - and DRIVING, no less.
-
- I know it was the Ephedrine which caused me to blackout the 45 minutes
- between the time that I left my house and when I had the wreck, since
- I've never had an experience like that on pot or alcohol alone. Has
- anyone else had a similar experience? Can anyone explain why this
- occurred? The scary part is that I know I completely lost control of my
- senses. I was driving down a road which there was no reason for me to
- be on, and I can't figure out why. Fortunately the road was empty
- (since it was the middle of the night) and I hit a fence instead of
- slamming head-on into a tree or another car.
-
- Jeff
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