Methamphetamine Use Triples Among Pregnant Rehab Patients
URSDAY, May 21 -- More pregnant women in drug treatment programs are there due to methamphetamine use than any other drug, new research shows. The number of expectant mothers seeking treatment for methamphetamine abuse tripled from 1994...
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Methamphetamine Abuse Costs U.S. $23.4 Billion
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4 -- In 2005, the economic cost of methamphetamine use in the United States was $23.4 billion, according to a RAND Corporation study of the financial impact of addiction, premature death...
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Zyban Eases Methamphetamine-Addiction Symptoms
...1, 2005 The antidepressant drug that helps in smoking cessation (bupropion) appears to diminish both the high and the cravings associated with methamphetamine addiction, according to a recent study by researchers at UCLA. The study results were published in Neuropsychopharmacology online journal...
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Fetal Exposure to Methamphetamine May Harm Child's Brain
WEDNESDAY, April 15 -- In what researchers are calling the first study of its kind, methamphetamine use among pregnant women has been found to prompt abnormal brain development among young children exposed to the drug in the womb. Whether...
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Researchers Define Mechanism of Methamphetamine Addiction
WEDNESDAY, April 9 -- Long-term changes in the brain's dopamine-releasing machinery may explain why methamphetamine addiction is so strong, U.S. researchers say. Dopamine is one of the brain's major neurotransmitters. The research team, led by Nigel Bamford,...
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