Hey Ciara! Welcome to the forums first of all. We are happy to have new people when we can get them! With that in mind, I've gotta start you off with a little bit of a primer. You're not the first and certainly won't be the last to start a thread like "Cocaine: Tell me about it". Seems like a pretty straightforward question and one that I would picture my mother asking regarding just about any drug. The thing is that it's just a little bit too vague for what we do here. I know you're discussing a more specific issue, but believe me, there's still enough there to discuss for days. I'd really like it if you could get back to us regarding some more specific knowledge. Keep in mind though, we don't help people get high, we help them not die
A little slogan I've been toolin' around with, but anyway...
I'll start you off with basics and if you want to continue with this, get back to me and we can. Amphetamines, in general are not harmful in an acute setting. You can die from an Amphetamine overdose, but it's not likely given that this would be a dose several times what would produce a "Speeding out of your mind"-type of feeling in most users. You want to keep your usage moderate for your own social and physical health, but Carisoprodol (Soma) doesn't get enough credit for its potential danger. It is a prodrug for the delivery of Meprobabmate (Miltown), a drug no longer on the market. The former was at one point the best-selling sedative drug on the market and I believe, the best-selling drug on the market period at one point. Similar song and dance to what we are all familiar with. It was marketed as safer than Barbiturates, which was about as "true" as Donald Trump's love and admiration for farmers. The drug was, of course discovered to be highly-addictive and significantly more dangerous than what the Pharma folks wanted people to find out about.
Hence, Meprobabmate was slowly withdrawn from the market and replaced with Carisoprodol, which was marketed as a "muscle relaxer" as opposed to a "minor tranquilizer". For all intents and constructions here, there's not a difference. You should consider Meprobabmate to be as dangerous as Barbiturates and if you don't know what Barbiturates are, they are like Benzodiazepines except a lot more euphoric and a lot more dangerous.