Tohhara S, Kato A, Nakajima T
Biwako Hospital.
Arukoru Kenkyuto Yakubutsu Ison. 1990 Dec;25(6):467-74.
Three cases of methamphetamine abuse by smoking were reported. The oral intake and the intravenous injection of the drug are usually adopted, and the smoking is recently found among the stimulant abusers in Japan. The stimulant is heated on a piece of aluminium foil with a lighter and its smoke is inhaled with a straw or a paper pipe. The intake means are identical to "crystal or ice" in Hawaii, although a special glass pipe or a cigarette is not used here. The effect of the drug obtained by smoking is more slack and mild than that by a intravenous injection, although the drug of the double dose is used in the smoking. Two cases changed the intake means from the injection to the smoking because of no guilty feeling and a lack of injection marks and evident proofs of illegal use. Therefore, abuse of methamphetamine by smoking is thought to increase in near future in Japan, and the delusion of arrest by policemen observed frequently in the stimulant abusers maybe decreases as a result of a decrease in the psychological stress of guilty.
报告了3例吸食甲基苯丙胺的案例。该药物通常采用口服和静脉注射方式，而在日本，最近在兴奋剂滥用者中发现了吸食情况。将兴奋剂放在一片铝箔上用打火机加热，然后用吸管或纸管吸入其烟雾。吸食方式与夏威夷的“冰毒”相同，不过这里不使用特殊的玻璃管或香烟。尽管吸食时使用的是双倍剂量的药物，但其效果比静脉注射更为松弛和温和。有2例因没有负罪感、没有注射痕迹以及缺乏非法使用的确凿证据，而将摄入方式从注射改为了吸食。因此，在日本，吸食甲基苯丙胺的滥用情况预计在不久的将来会增加，并且由于负罪心理压力的降低，兴奋剂滥用者中经常出现的被警察逮捕的错觉可能会减少。
