Cockings J G, Brown M
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA.
Med J Aust. 1997 Aug 18;167(4):199-200. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1997.tb138845.x.
"On the street", the more expensive illegal psychostimulants, such as cocaine or amphetamine, may be mixed with or substituted for cheaper drugs such as ephedrine-with added risk to the user. We report diffuse myocardial injury in a 25-year-old man who presented with pulmonary oedema after intravenously injecting himself with ephedrine, believing it to be amphetamine.