Another word to the wise regarding this drug:
Do not snort pseudoephedrine!
I can tell you, from
personal experience, (hey
weren't we all 16 once?) that if you try
snorting this
drug, it WILL feel like you've just jammed a freshly made batch of
plaster up your
nostril. It will sit there and harden, and the rest will
drip down the back of your throat. Personally,
I vomitted profusely at that point, when the dripping began, but then I'd been drinking
plastic-bottle vodka all night and
chain-smoking clove cigarettes. Neither of which I advise doing, as well.
And yes, you will develop a
tolerance to
pseudoephedrine, whether you
swallow or
snort it, and you will
need to do more at some point. The
addiction is much like a
cocaine addiction, in that the addicted may swear up and down they're not
addicted (even though they'd sell their
record collection for more,
er...or so I've read), despite the fact that there is a definate
withdrawal you go through. It's not quite as nasty as
heroin withdrawal, but
it's no walk in the park, either.
Bottom line - use this drug for its' intended purposes, such as to treat asthma, and stick to the real drugs if you want to get high; they're much more expensive, and if you're a poor student like I was, it's neigh impossible to afford a seriously debilitating coke habit, while it' s dangerously easy to develop a pseudoephedrine habit (it's available in 24-hour supermarkets!). Not that I'm condoning cocaine addiction...but I think you get the gist of what I'm saying.