❤️ 14th August 2015 - Ethylphenidate

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Ethylphenidate 

(RS)-ethyl 2-phenyl-2-piperidin-2ylacetate - this is its full chemical name

Trade Name - EPH - this is its nickname 

Legal Status - UK Class B Temporary Class Drug - this means its status as class B will be under review 

Routes of Administration - Insufflation (sniffed), Vaporized (smoked either in a pipe or on foil. Not directly heated with a flame), Intramuscular (injected into a muscle), Intravenous (injected into a vein) Rectal (up your arse), Oral (swallowed), Sublingual (dissolved under tongue)

Bioavailability - Variable - the amount you absorb via chosen Route of Administration. Intravenous is probably 99%, intramuscular 85%, rectally 75%, Vaporized 60%, sublingual 30% and oral 20%. So for each gramme of ethylphenidate consumed, if injected you'd get .99g, sublingual you'd get .30g and so on. 

Half Life - Less than 4hrs - How long for the amount you took to halve in your blood. So if I take .10mgs at 10am, by 2pm I'd have 0.05mgs, 6pm, 0.025mgs, 10pm, 0.012mgs. This is quick. Some drugs have 24 hour half lives

Ethylphenidate (EPH) is a psychostimulant and a close analog of methylphenidate. (Ritalin)

Ethylphenidate acts as both a dopamine reuptake inhibitor (happy chemicals you naturally make) and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (energy chemical you make),

meaning it effectively boosts the levels of the norepinephrine and dopamine neurotransmitters in the brain, by binding to, and partially blocking the transporter proteins that normally remove those monoamines from the synaptic cleft.

Systematic Ethylphenidate can be formed when ethanol and methylphenidate (so simply as drinking when on Ritalin)

Ethylphenidate formation appears to be more common when large quantities of methylphenidate and alcohol are consumed at the same time, such as in non-medical use or overdose scenarios.This process is also known to occur when cocaine and alcohol are consumed together, forming cocaethylene. Only a few percent of the consumed methylphenidate is converted to ethylphenidate so a significant dose would never be produced.

Ethylphenidate's profile is nearly identical to methylphenidate, and is primarily responsible for its euphoric and reinforcing effects

• Ethylphenidate is not internationally 
• Ethylphenidate is not controlled in the Netherlands
• Ethylphenidate is not explicitly controlled in US but it could possibly be considered an analog of a Schedule II substance
• Ethylphenidate is illegal in Sweden as of 15 December 2012
• Ethylphenidate is illegal to manufacture, distribute or import in the UK, as of 10 April 2015 it has been placed under a Temporary Class Drug Order which automatically places it in the Class B category
• Ethylphenidate is illegal in Jersey under the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978.
• Australian state and federal legislation contains provisions that mean that analogues of controlled drugs are also covered by the legislation. Ethylphenidate would be an analogue of methylphenidate under this legislation.
• Ethylphenidate is not controlled in Canada 
• Ethylphenidate is illegal in Germany as of 05.07.2013
• Ethylphenidate is illegal in Austria by the "Neue Psychoaktive Substanzen Gesetz" NPSG since 1 January 2012
• Ethylphenidate is illegal in Denmark as of 1 February 2013