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Addiction and Drug Education Blogs and Podcasts, looking at drug use trends and treatment, and how addiction is tied to the brain as well as the body addiction, drugs, education, recovery, substance abuse education, prevention, chemical dependency, AOD CNS Productions CNS Productions service@cnsproductions.com no no http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/uppers/493/ http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/uppers/493/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:57:06 +0000 CNS http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/?p=493 http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/uppers/493/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Addiction podcast examines the new "shake-n-bake" method of making methamphetamine. Dr Darryl Inaba expands and includes a look at the chemistry involved, with left- ... Addiction podcast examines the new "shake-n-bake" method of making methamphetamine. Dr Darryl Inaba expands and includes a look at the chemistry involved, with left- and right- handed molelcules. Transcript of podcast (click to listen): Welcome to the CNS pod cast featuring Dr Darryl Inaba, Research Director for CNS Productions. CNS: Hi and welcome once again to the addiction pod cast from CNS. I’m Howard LaMere here with Darryl Inaba. Darryl, what’s in the news? Darryl: It’s very fascinating in the news this week, out of Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kansas, the central belt of our country is having a just a birth in, or a burst rather of methamphetamine addiction and I thought historically when we have these upper -  downer trends, they usually last only about ten to thirty years. And we’ve been on an upper trend ever since cocaine just took hold in 1980. So we should we should be on, waning down, it appeared earlier in Oregon and all over the country that methamphetamine was starting to wane but all of a sudden it’s starting to grow again and, and the stories coming out of the mid-west and that part of our country is beginning to explain why there’s, there’s been a new process or a new way of making methamphetamine which they hadn’t seen before that is exploded and made it really practical for people to have methamphetamine again, and it’s called the shake and bake method. Just a… CNS: Not chicken. Darryl: Not chicken, but it’s still amazing that, the street chemist can come up with such ingenious ways to get access and medication, not to the medication but to the drugs they want. It’s sort of like when there’s a will there’s a way and when most of the states like Oregon, restricted, and nationally there’s a law that restricted access to pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient in Sudafed for colds, congestion. That was the main ingredient for making the new methamphetamine base chemical we thought that it would disappear or at least take another ten or thirty years before they’d figure out another way to make methamphetamine. But what has come about is a process actually more; it seems like a more efficient process where they can take the Sudafed that is available. Many states restrict it to maybe a package of 24 or 30 tablets that you can buy, and you can only buy two packages of that and they make you buy it straight from the pharmacist behind the counter and that would eliminate, we thought, the massive amounts of Sudafed that could be used in of course manufacture of methamphetamine. But the shake and bake method, just takes a two liter soda bottle, plastic soda bottle. I think one of the secrets were they found out that a instead of anhydrous ammonia, they can actually take ammonium that’s available in some of those cold packs, the instant cold packs and use that plus a whole host of just household chemicals. Throw it all, crush up the Sudafed, throw it in this bottle, put all their additives, it looks god-awful when it’s done, there’s actually some videos on, on U-tube and stuff showing people making it up and it looks just like a murky darkish bunch of chemicals that are thrown into this bottle. You shake it up and you have to keep the bottle sealed because there’s a chemical reaction, you can actually see lightning, or actually sparks that are occurring within the liquid themselves with the gas that the concoction produces if it, if it gets enough oxygen, it’s been known to explode. So again it’s a dangerous thing, a toxic chemical thing, but I think what’s important to me or astounding rather to me, is that it seems to be more efficient than the old ways of making methamphetamine. They’re able to take the limited amounts of Sudafed, say thirty tablets, or thirty milligrams, and if you convert all of that effectively in 100% to methamphetamine you’re, you’re probably going to end up with about close to gram of methamphetamine, so they’re cooking up in the Compulsive Behaviors, Dr. Darryl Inaba, Heroin & opiates, In the News, Prescription/OTC drugs, Understanding Addictions & Brain Chemistry, Uppers, methamphetamine CNS Productions no no