Overamping or Speed “Overdose” Guide

“You take that one shot all of a sudden you go damn, I shouldn’t have done that, you did one too many and you just crossed the line...all of a sudden, paranoid, everybody’s looking at you, you’re in a fishbowl...it lasts 12 terrible hours…and the shadow people are watching, everyone’s just on that side of the door looking at you, the cops have binoculars three stories away, everything’s got recorders.” –Rick

Practicing Harm Reduction, for ourselves and with our friends

“There’s one appropriate response no matter how people are reacting and that’s to treat that other person who’s having a crisis with compassion and treat them with kindness no matter what, that’s the always the appropriate response.” –Jesse

The suggestions in this guide are intended as just that: suggestions. We all have our own ways of doing things, and our own experiences with the drug, the high, and practicing harm reduction. The goal of this booklet is to get us all to take the issue of overamping seriously and to bring attention to it as much as other kinds of “overdoses,” and also to recognize all the smart things people already do to keep themselves and their friends safe. Overamping can be harmful — either physically, mentally or both — and the intention of this guide to help us think of ways to lessen that harm.