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ELI5: How do people on drugs, such as meth, supposedly get superhuman strength, taking multiple people to subdue them etc?
gpt
People are generally stronger than we think. We have built-in safety margins, like the warning line in a pressure valve, so that we don't accidentally injure ourselves... these safety margins are often very cautious, preventing us from exerting anything like our full possible force (except for in emergencies, where things like adrenaline shut down some of the safety mechanisms).

Some drugs either directly shut down the mechanisms (by triggering or emulating surges of the relevant hormones), or otherwise prevent us from being aware of them.

A big part of these mechanisms is pain responses. Drugs often significantly mute pain.

So, you have a person who is unaware of pain and is being as frantically strong as people can be in a severe panicked emergency, versus people who are still very aware of their own pain and perceived limits (and who are often trying to not severely injure the target).

So, it's not that the person has _extra_ strength from somewhere, it's that a person who has had all the limits taken off, against people who are still severely limited in multiple ways, _appears_ superhuman.