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