#A corpse wired for sound reference full#
#A corpse wired for sound reference free#

#A corpse wired for sound reference full#

1959Īnother full view with confirmed date. My story was that a companion started me on goof balls (controlled drugs) and I was now completely wired up (addicted). I adopted the role of a goof ball and heroin addict fresh from the east coast. Most of the citations I found are snippet view, a full view with confirmed date is in The Vancouver Sun Feb 9, 1963: A good booster, especially a female, who is 'wired on crystals,' can 'take off' a number of dress shops. School of Criminology, 1966 (or possibly 1965):īoosting is another lucrative activity aided by the use of amphetamine compounds. Issues in criminology, Volume 1, University of California, Berkeley. Also wired on whites, bean trip, white scene. Maurer, Victor Hugh Vogel, 1967:īenny jag. Narcotics and narcotic addiction, David W.

#A corpse wired for sound reference free#

The free 'hits' now cost coin she needed more of them.

Since amphetamines have been used in excessive amounts for years, it is difficult to define the boundaries of the present speed scene.Įtc: a review of general semantics: Volume 26, International Society for General Semantics, 1969:ĬW, Canadian welfare: Volumes 45-46, Canadian Welfare Council - 1969:Īfter a few months she was 'wired' to meth. All reserve energy is used, leaving the person 'wired'.

This particular property adds to the drug's danger when taken in large doses because the body metabolism is increased while the person has no desire to eat. Wired: the exhausted state resulting speed after the initial increased level. Journal of the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, Vol(or possibly 1968): I'd shoot a lot of speed, get real wired up then shoot a lot of yellow jackets. The drug scene: help or hang-up?, Walter L. The free 'hits' now cost coin she needed. I had been up all night in the living room, and then I had gotten up for another hit.Īfter a few months she was 'wired' to meth. 'When Bryce Brooks first introduced me to Jim, I was wired out of my mind. US Congress' 1970 Drug abuse: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, first session: Parts 1-2 He was chuckling as he jingled some coins in his hand his bearing was the boundlessly optimistic air of one high on heroin. Keeny saw that Gato, who used hard drugs, was wired up. Finally, they take four barbiturates to put them to sleep. This causes them to become too high, too 'wired,' so they need more tranquilizers. At lunch they have three to four martinis which servce to put them 'down.' After lunch they take two or three Dexadrines to wake them up. This makes them too 'wired' to work, so they take a tranquilizer to relax them. It is used in a 1970 snippet of The Accountants Digest, where it describes drug use: of Health's 1971 Desk reference on drug abuse:ĪDDICT (heroin): (HYPE, HOPHEAD, JUNKIE, DREAMER, SLEEPWALKER) ADDICTED (heroin): (CAUGHT, HOOKED, ON THE NEEDLE, WIRED, MONKEY ON THE BACK, VULTURE ON VEINS) 1970 Frykman's 1971 A new connection: an approach to persons involved in compulsive drug use:Īmped 'Wired' on crystal (methamphetamine) stems from the original Methedrine ampules, small glass vials in which pharmaceutical methamphetamine was sold Known as 'crystal' and 'speed,' they generally create an electric sense of well-being and vitality - a condition the young call being 'up' or 'wired'. In some ways they are the most dangerous of the popular drugs. Cohen give an etymology in their 1971 Understanding drug use: an adult's guide to drugs and the young:

Around the 1970s, this then became current when talking of legal drugs (for example prescription stimulant drugs, 'uppers'), and then quite naturally was soon used for another legal stimulant drug, caffeine, which of course is found in coffee. Later uses seem to mean being high, or on a buzz (for example on meths). It's not clear if these influenced the drug slang term.) (Other earlier uses of wired are to have messaged someone by telegraph or other means ('I wired the Chicago office'), and it's sometimes used in discussions of how someone's 'brain is wired up'. This would follow some other earlier uses such 'wired for electricity', 'wired for aircon' and 'wired for sound'. The earlier uses seem to mean hooked or addicted (for example to heroin), possibly from a suggestion of being connected to, wired to. Google Books tells us it's in print in the early 1970s and late 1960s as US and Canadian street slang, and appears to originate from Canada in the 1950s, if not earlier. Wired (adj.) 'nervous, jittery' is from 1970s.