
He analyzed what they produced and worked out how they did it. Bozenko’s job was to understand the thinking of black-market chemists, samples of whose work were regularly plopped on his desk. “Chemist by day, chemist by night,” his Twitter bio once read.īozenko had joined the DEA seven years earlier, just as the global underworld was veering toward synthetic drugs and away from their plant-based cousins. Bozenko, a garrulous man with a wide smile, worked in the DEA lab during the day and taught chemistry at a local university in the evenings. The field seems to breed folks whose every waking minute is spent puzzling over chemical reactions. Organic chemistry can be endlessly manipulated, with compounds that, like Lego bricks, can be used to build almost anything. This will help calm you down because it kicks in the "rest and digest" response.īut the main thing is to avoid thinking/worrying about stuff, since meth will trigger those thoughts into overdrive, and to just settle back and relax until you start to naturally come down in a few hours.Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. If you have no other medications, sleeping tablets, even vitamin C, then I would recommend you (a) do something calming - like slow deep breathing, putting on some chilled music, or wathcing a nice happy TV show of film (b) have a nice hot bath or shower, which will help your blood vessels relax and feel quite soothing and (c) try to eat and drink if you can, even if you need to use some water to chew and swallow food. It can easily cope with a long period at high levels of exertion, so even though it is beating hard, try to bear that in mind and not worry so much.Īs for inducing a come down, trazodone probably won't help much while still high on meth, so don't try that. Second, unless you had a mammoth dose, your heart will probably be absolutely fine once you start to come down. This happens to lots of people, and the anxiety drives them to completely overreact. Hey there mate, sorry to hear you're having such a difficult experience.įirst thing to remember is that you're probably experiencing a bit of paranoia and anxiety because of the meth itself, which will tend to make you obsess over your fast and heavy heart beat and/or anything else that's bothering you.
