But these processes may act differently in people with substance use disorders, such as addiction to cocaine, methamphetamines, or opioids. Specifically, substance users in our studies showed slower learning from negative outcomes than did healthy individuals (called a slower “learning rate” [1; 2...
Methamphetamine Research Paper Inquiry Statement Methamphetamine or METH is a highly addictive psychostimulant that has neurodegenerative effects on the human brain (Krasnova & Cadet 2009)(Krasnova and Cadet, 2009). METH abuse in Hawaii is one of the highest in the nation (http://the.honoluluadvert...
Meth labs are becoming more and more common in Maine, including the 'one-pot' method that cooks up the drug in plastic soda bottles. It's this practice that prompted a warning from police about the dangers of picking up discarded bottles left in public places. Methamphetamine is highly addi...
together with alcohol and tobacco, is the largest addiction-related public health problem in the US [33]. This is probably the addictive condition where an analysis of cumulative evidence most strikingly supports the notion of a chronic disorder with frequent relapses in a large proportion of peop...
Your lack of addictive experience is not a huge handicap because you are trying to intervene BEFORE they get that far. But remember this: some kids are BORN to be addicts and slavishly follow the “leaders” of their peers so don’t get discouraged. Save the ones who CAN be saved and ...
Even Boyd’s research didn’t take into account members of the transgender community. Another recent study showed that transgender students were about 2 ½ times more likely than their cisgender peers to use drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamines [3]. ...
I’m not going to sugar-coat it for you. It’s going be rough for a few weeks. You’re going to go through withdrawal from one of the most addictive substances known to man. But that’s a necessary part of the process. The suffering that you experience during the withdrawal is part...
Here is a table of several of the brain nuclei that are important in the pleasure, happiness and joy centers. These are the ones that receive the dopamine, the serotonin, and the oxytocin that the brain creates naturally. Cocaine affects three of those centers. Methamphetamine affects three of...
Researchers at Florida State University decided to investigate whether relationship status influenced how male prairie voles responded to the highly addictive drug methamphetamine. They introduced the drug both to prairie voles who still were virgins, and not yet bonded wi...