--- title: "How to pronounce \"d amphetamine\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"d amphetamine\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/sxgCC4H1dl8/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/d-amphetamine" --- # How to pronounce "d amphetamine" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/dæmfɛtæmæɪn/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **dam·phe·ta·mine** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (14 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "d amphetamine" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "actually developed as a way to try and get around or rather prevent some of the abuse potential of Adderall and Other Drugs that contain damphetamine D amphetamine stands for dextra amphetamine and in the 70s and 80s there were a fair amount of movies and there was a lot of trafficking and there was a lot of criminal activity related to what was called dexedrine dexedrine is pure D" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 33:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgCC4H1dl8&t=2038s) ### Example 2 > "you should know that L amphetamine tends to be less potent in increasing certain neurochemicals in the brain I'll talk about which neurochemicals they are in a moment then is D amphetamine so D amphetamine is potent stuff not as potent as methamphetamine but very potent stuff l-amphetamine a little bit less potent L amphetamine tends to be the amphetamine that increases blood pressure and heart rate what we call" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgCC4H1dl8&t=1351s) ### Example 3 > "acid called lysine now the amino acid lysine is a big amino acid and the attaching of Lysine to D amphetamine what we call vivance makes it what's called a pro drug it actually can't have any effect on its own but when one takes Vyvanse and it's broken down in the gut but to a greater extent actually in the bloodstream the lysines are cleaved off slowly over time and as a consequence" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 33:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgCC4H1dl8&t=1980s) ### Example 4 > "first let's talk about Adderall and what Adderall is Adderall is a combination of what are called amphetamine salts amphetamine salts refers to the fact that there are two major forms of amphetamine there's a d amphetamine or dexoramphetamine and levo amphetamine or L amphetamine so I'll refer to these as D and L amphetamine and for you chemistry-minded folks out there the D and the L also refer to the fact that there is a l left-handed version of the" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 21:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgCC4H1dl8&t=1297s) ### Example 5 > "forms of the molecule look very similar but they're mirror images of one another and yet they can have very different actions in the brain and body so Adderall is a three to one ratio of D amphetamine to L amphetamine you should know that L amphetamine tends to be less potent in increasing certain neurochemicals in the brain I'll talk about which neurochemicals they are in a" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgCC4H1dl8&t=1335s) ### Example 6 > "peripheral effects because it happens in the periphery outside the central nervous system peripheral effects like increased heart rate increased blood pressure sweating Etc are mostly activated by L amphetamine whereas D amphetamine tends to work mainly on receptors in the brain and therefore have effects mainly restricted to the brain now what are these effects that I've been referring to" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgCC4H1dl8&t=1378s) ### Example 7 > "to get the five free travel packs and the year supply of vitamin D3 K2 now a bit earlier I mentioned that L amphetamine levo amphetamine is present in Adderall but at one quarter the amount of D amphetamine okay so there's a little bit of l-amphetamine and a lot of damphetamine in Adderall many of you are probably familiar with vivance Vyvanse is a commercial name for what many people think is extended release" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 32:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgCC4H1dl8&t=1942s) ### Example 8 > "Adderall but actually Vyvanse is not extended release Adderall Vivant is a drug in which the pharmaceutical industry has taken one component of Adderall just the D amphetamine component and attached to it an amino acid called lysine now the amino acid lysine is a big amino acid and the" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 32:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgCC4H1dl8&t=1964s) ### Example 9 > "or they need to think about other sympathomimetics for ADHD and we'll talk about what some of those other options are a little bit as well so the important thing to understand is that Adderall is really Two drugs DNL amphetamine vivance is D amphetamine which is also called dexedrine but with this time released aspect created by lumping a lysine on there and you may notice that I haven't mentioned one of the major" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 36:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgCC4H1dl8&t=2182s) ### Example 10 > "withdrawal symptoms so that's an important issue to highlight now in terms of psychosis this is a very interesting and very important literature sure first of all any amphetamine whether or not it's D amphetamine L amphetamine and also methylphenidate for that matter Ritalin can induce psychosis now there are a number of different factors that are going to predispose somebody to psychosis having a first relative who's" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 90:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgCC4H1dl8&t=5402s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [amphetamine](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/amphetamine) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "d amphetamine" correctly? 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