Amphetamines (including speed) are a group of stimulant drugs used to stay awake, energised and alert. For everything you want to know, talk to FRANK.

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As stimulant drugs, piperazines are particularly risky if taken by anyone suffering from high blood pressure or a heart condition. And you may not know that you have a pre-existing heart condition. Perfectly healthy young people can have a fit or heart attack after taking stimulant drugs.

2C is a family of stimulant and hallucinogenic drugs. Find out their effects, the law and anything else you want to know about it from FRANK.

Methylphenidate and methylphenidate-based drugs can put a strain on your heart and nervous system, increasing your heart rate and blood pressure. This can be extremely dangerous, even fatal, especially if you have a pre-existing heart problem.

Doctors have developed a number of effective ways to treat addiction to street heroin. These include using certain safer drugs to replace the street heroin, such as methadone and buprenorphine. Other drugs that block the effects of heroin (so you can't get a high) are available once you become drug-free.

Anyone with a heart condition, blood pressure problems, epilepsy or asthma can have a very dangerous reaction to the drug. Ecstasy affects the body's temperature control. Dancing for long periods in a hot atmosphere, like a club, increases the chances of overheating and dehydration.

PCP was used in operations medically before Doctors stopped using it. Talk to FRANK to find out why this anaesthetic drug can be a big risk with FRANK.

Gabapentin is a prescription drug recommended to treat neuropathic pain and can enhance the effects of other drugs. Find out more from FRANK.