Medicine: Amphetamine Kicks

"I was involved in a lot of burglaries," the pretty blonde told Kansas City police, "and I couldn't have done it without a shot. When you're on that stuff, you just don't care. I was even a prostitute for three months." The "stuff," explained Sharon Pollard, 21, and now in jail for smuggling a revolver to her jailed boy friend and partner in crime, comes from a 75ยข inhaler intended only for clearing stuffy noses. But if its active chemical ingredient, amphetamine, is dissolved and injected into a vein, it packs a wallop. Last...

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