THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Anders Breivik took illegal substances to increase his physical and mental capacities on the day he launched a killing spree last July, an expert told an Oslo court on Thursday.
Before he launched his July 22 bomb attac[k] on a government building in Oslo and went on a shooting rampage on Utoeya island, Breivik said he had taken an an ECA stack, a combination of ephedrine, caffeine and aspirin.
This mix is illegal in Norway and the United States among other countries but is popular among body-builders and is often used for weight loss and as a stimulant.
"He was slightly to moderately under the influence of a high affecting the central nervous system," Professor Joerg Moerland of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health told the Oslo district court on the 28th day of Breivik's trial.
The 33-year-old right-wing extremist has said he took 50 percent more than the normal ECA stack dose authorised in the European Union only a few hours before his attacks.
Breivik has told the court the drug cocktail allows "the brain to absorb more oxygen and this results in better physical and mental performance." » | Thursday, May 31, 2012
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