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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Protein Might Mute Effects of Methamphetamine
...which remains a mostly mysterious illness. During its research, the team also found that oct3 mutes the high that drug users experience from methamphetamines and similar addictive substances. Oct3 helps astrocytes soak up excess dopamine from around neurons. If not done fast or efficiently enough,...

'Street' Drug Use Down, Prescription Drug Abuse Rising: U.S. Report
THURSDAY, Sept. 4 -- Cocaine and methamphetamine use among young adults in the United States fell significantly in 2007, while abuse of prescription drugs increased fairly dramatically,...

US Senate Advances Bill to Limit Access to Cold Medicines
...medicines containing pseudoephedrine, according to a report by Reuters. Pseudoephedrine is used to make the highly addictive illegal drug methamphetamine or meth. The bipartisan bill now moves to the full Senate, and a House of Representatives subcommittee has received a similar bill to consider....

Avigen Announces Restructuring and Strategic Direction
...2b development program for neuropathic pain. Current and future National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded Phase 2a trials in opioid withdrawal and methamphetamine relapse will continue. -- Proceeds from the sale or partnering of Avigen's current assets (AV411 and AV513) could significantly increase...

Generation Rx: Millions of teens abusing unprescribed meds to get high
...prescription and OTC medications is higher or on par with teen abuse of a variety of illicit drugs- cocaine/crack (9 percent), Ecstasy (9 percent), methamphetamine (8 percent), LSD (6 percent), ketamine (5 percent), heroin (4 percent) and GHB (4 percent). Abuse of medications has penetrated teen culture:...

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