How to Use ephedrine in a Sentence

ephedrine

noun
  • The ephedrine meth was a party drug, big in the gay community.
    — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Avoid drinks containing stimulants such as ephedrine or high doses of caffeine.
    — John Maffei, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Starting in 2005, the government cracked down on ephedrine, and supplies of meth dried up.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • To save him, Cousin Ricky is going to pump Pope full of ephedrine, a dose that luckily doesn’t stop his heart, but amps him up to get back that cross.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • This meant traffickers were no longer beholden to the cyclical nature of the poppy harvest or the difficulties of cooking meth from ephedrine.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • However, when his team seemed the top contender for the title, he was excluded from the tournament after a doping test came up positive for ephedrine.
    — Esteban Campanela, CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Methamphetamine is an addictive stimulant that can be made from ephedrine and other readily available chemicals.
    — Mike Ives, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2016
  • That means the high that users experience can last up to 24 hours, roughly twice that of formulations with ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, Church said.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
  • Local producers shifted from using over-the-counter medicines — used in the rest of the world to make ephedrine — to the widely available ephedra, growing wild on Afghan hillsides.
    — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Predictably, a drugs test was in order and the veteran superstar got an F, testing positive for the performance-enhancer ephedrine.
    — SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • But seizures of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine and phenyl-2-propanone (P2P) -- the most common chemicals used to make meth -- basically dried up.
    — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 3 May 2021
  • What researchers have found in more recent batches of meth, starting around 2021, is that ephedrine and pseudoephedrine were swapped out for phenyl-2-propanone, Church said.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
  • Many nations tried to halt meth production by choking supplies of precursors, usually ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, best known for being used in decongestant medicines.
    — Grant Peck, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2022
  • He was ejected from the 1994 World Cup after testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug ephedrine.
    — Liz Clarke, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The Argentinian was also sent home early from the 1994 World Cup as a result of testing positive for the drug ephedrine.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Some of these compounds are stimulants, like ephedrine, and others can produce powerful hallucinations, delirium and out-of-body experiences.
    — Gary Laderman, Fortune Well, 17 July 2023
  • Predictably, Argentina unraveled after Maradona was expelled from the tournament because of another positive drug test, this one for ephedrine.
    — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Bitter orange extract is found in citrus fruits such as Seville oranges and contains synephrine, a stimulant with effects similar to ephedrine, according to a 2012 study.
    — Emilia Benton, Women's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Bitter Orange Extract Bitter orange extract contains synephrine, an ephedrine analog that speeds up metabolism, burns fat, and suppresses appetite.
    — Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Menorca Strands Researchers found the chemicals, along with the stimulant ephedrine, inside strands of hair buried deep in a cave on the Spanish island of Menorca, not far from an earlier burial site.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Champagne explains that products such caffeine and ephedrine — touted for metabolism-boosting and weight loss — may negatively affect metabolism, and are potentially dangerous for some.
    — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Like many other states, Mississippi mandated a prescription years ago because drug enforcement agents said medications with ephedrine or pseudoephedrine were being used as an ingredient in crystal methamphetamine.
    — Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Romero’s toxicology report showed positive findings for ephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, amphetamine and methamphetamine, DOJ’s report stated.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act would, in 2006, limit how much ephedrine could be purchased at one time, effectively restricting the key element to meth production.
    — Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard and Rachel Clarke, CNN, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Meth has traditionally been made from ephedrine and pseudoephedrine — substances that can be found in over-the-counter cold medications that address nasal congestion and runny noses, said Terry Church, director of the Institute for Addiction Sciences Education Committee at USC.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026

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