Showing posts with label meth addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meth addiction. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Methamphetamine: An Excerpt

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There’s more than one kind of monster. Type and I pass the pipe.  The overhead light flickers and the wind picks up even more. It’s com...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Meth Use Trending Downward, Say Feds.

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Big drop registered from 2004 to 2008. The history of illegal drug use in America is a history of peaks and valleys, with various drugs g...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Methland: Book Review

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Cooking crystal in the heart of the Heartland. It’s summer, and I’ve been catching up on my reading. In an earlier post, I reviewed Joshua...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Meth Babies—Fact or Fiction?

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Research team finds brain abnormalities. When it came to babies born to crack-addicted mothers, the media went overboard, creating a crisi...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Of Mice and Methamphetamine

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Diabetes drug being tested for addiction . It’s a mouthful: peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma (PPAR-gamma).  Peroxisomes a...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Addiction Assumptions: The Meth Epidemic

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Who is really at risk? A simple question: Has meth use in the United States truly reached “epidemic” levels, as is commonly stated by health...
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Friday, May 1, 2009

Guest Post: Things Go Better with Meth

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The Pepsi Challenge with controlled substances. [Today’s post comes to us from Neurological Correlates , a blog devoted to the neuroscience...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Pharmacokinetics of Speed

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Meth lingers longer than coke, targets different brain areas. Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory , already famous for their wo...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008

No Pill for Stimulant Addiction

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Meth and cocaine continue to elude researchers. Despite promising trials of several compounds, methamphetamine addiction remains largely im...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Meth to the West, Cocaine to the East, Pot in the Middle

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The geography of drug use. To paraphrase an old tune by Gerry Rafferty, we got meth to the left of us, cocaine to the right, and here we are...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Amphetamine Blues

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How meth addiction happens. If alcohol’s impact on brain cells is wide-ranging and diffuse, and marijuana’s impact is selective and subtle, ...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Fewer People Testing Positive For Meth and Cocaine

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Quest Diagnostics releases 2007 figures. Quest Diagnostics, the nation’s leading provider of employee drug testing services, reported a 22 p...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

FDA Puts Coke/Meth Treatment on Fast Track

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Sabril may block cravings for stimulants. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Fast Track designation to vigabatrin, an ant...