Background

Speed comes as a grey, white or dirty-white powder which is snorted or dissolved in liquid for injection or drinking, or swallowed in pill form. It's the most impure illegal drug available in the UK.

Fact from history

Hitler is said to have been injecting speed every day at the end of World War II. The US Army fed speed to its soldiers in Vietnam. Both were losers.

Amazing but true

Amphetamines were discovered by scientists looking for a cure for asthma