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A RED Ducati 600cc 'Monster' motor-cycle draws up outside 57 Ledbury Road. 'It is not toxic to the organs of the body, there are very few deaths due to amphetamines, and it is not difficult to stop taking them.'Dr Toseland agrees. 'Speed itself doesn't pose these dangers if it's pure.It's the manufacture and the cutting agents that pose the greater danger.It's a new thing to find people dying with only traces of amphetamines in their bodies.'Some names have been changed.(Photograph omitted). 'Then there are impurities from the manufacture or from the starting materials.'None the less, Dr Brewer says, the dangers of amphetamine are relatively few.

Chalk, paracetamol and talcum powder have also been used as fillers. 'Sometimes pushers put boric acid into what they're cutting,' says Dr Toseland. Only 2 per cent of the powder analysed by Dr Toseland was amphetamine. He found more than 20 different compounds and several unidentified chemicals masquerading as speed.Powder bought as speed can include other substances such as caffeine, sucrose, glucose and Vitamin C. 'Ecstasy is much purer than the amphetamine sold at the moment.

Amphetamine is only about 2 per cent pure - and that's the good stuff.'Dr Toseland recently analysed some white powder found near the body of Andrew White, an amphetamine addict who died unexpectedly earlier this year.Mr White was found by his mother, Janet Curtis, in bed at their home in Newmarket, Suffolk. Mrs Curtis says that her son, who had been taking speed for five years, had not touched the drug for six months, and had joined a rehabilitation programme.She believes that his death was manslaughter - that the speed sold to him was impure. This increased police efficiency and growth in demand have led to the drug being 'cut' or spiked with other substances.According to the National Audit of Drug Misuse in Britain, the purity of street amphetamine is 'no more than 5 per cent' But Dr Toseland believes that the real figure is even lower. 'It's synthetically manufactured.' But shared intelligence and co-operation among the police, customs and manufacturers - wholesalers will inform police of a large order from an unknown individual - are making it increasingly difficult for dealers to obtain large amounts of the required ingredients.

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