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 state may be directly related to the user's violent behavior°
 Not infrequently the amphetamine abuser committing
 homicide is attacking his imagined assailant created in
 his paranoid delusional thinking_ The violent act may
 take place in a state of terror and panic, often
 secondary to misinterpretation of events or delusions.
 Id. at 149o
 _i_rb_c_//r_a_t_o (CSA Schedule II)o Barbiturates are synthetic
 drugs which are commonly used as sedatives. Regular use of
 barbiturates leads to addiction and other behavioral disorders. Use of
 barbiturates may also cause violent and aggressive behavior. Chronic
 barbiturate intoxication closely resembles alcoholism with similar
 depressant effects on the central nervous system (clouded
 consciousness, slurred speech, impaired muscle coordination, and marked
 swings in mood from depression to euphorias from passivity to extreme
 aggression). National Commission, D92_!__i___ric__, _p__ at 90.
 The withdrawal syndrome is characterized by loss of appetite, insomnia,
 tremor, convulsions, delirium, and in extreme cases, death. /xi_, at 92.
 Potentially more harmful to the individual than either the effects
 of barbiturate intoxication or the symptoms of withdrawal is the danger
 of overdosage: _poisoning by barbiturates constitutes a major social
 problem. In the United States, these drugs account for 15
 percent of all poisonings and are involved in more deaths than any
 other poisonings .... Death resulting from barbiturate overdose is
 becoming an increasingly common social phenomenon, whether suicidal or
 accidental. _' _d_ at 96_98o The Commission's conclusion stated that
 _'the whole pattern of barbiturate dependency is a more dangerous one
 than that of opiate abuse°" _h_ at 97_
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