Methamphetamine is a central nervous system stimulant that is similar to amphetamine. It is commonly known as "speed", "ice", "meth", or "crank". Methamphetamine causes the release of neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain, producing feelings of euphoria. Long term use of methamphetamine can lead to addiction and negative health effects such as paranoia, hallucinations, mood disturbances, and psychosis. Treatment for methamphetamine abuse focuses on outpatient behavioral therapies.
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Methamphetamine is a central nervous system stimulant that is similar to amphetamine. It is commonly known as "speed", "ice", "meth", or "crank". Methamphetamine causes the release of neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain, producing feelings of euphoria. Long term use of methamphetamine can lead to addiction and negative health effects such as paranoia, hallucinations, mood disturbances, and psychosis. Treatment for methamphetamine abuse focuses on outpatient behavioral therapies.
Methamphetamine is a central nervous system stimulant that is similar to amphetamine. It is commonly known as "speed", "ice", "meth", or "crank". Methamphetamine causes the release of neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain, producing feelings of euphoria. Long term use of methamphetamine can lead to addiction and negative health effects such as paranoia, hallucinations, mood disturbances, and psychosis. Treatment for methamphetamine abuse focuses on outpatient behavioral therapies.
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Methamphetamine is a central nervous system stimulant that is similar to amphetamine. It is commonly known as "speed", "ice", "meth", or "crank". Methamphetamine causes the release of neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain, producing feelings of euphoria. Long term use of methamphetamine can lead to addiction and negative health effects such as paranoia, hallucinations, mood disturbances, and psychosis. Treatment for methamphetamine abuse focuses on outpatient behavioral therapies.
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Methamphetamine
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What is Methamphetamine? Methamphetamine is a central nervous system stimulant drug that is similar in structure to amphetamine. Also known as: "speed", "ice", "meth", "crystal" and "crank"
Mode of action Methamphetamine acts on the pleasure circuit in the brain Causes the release of nuerotransmitters such as Dopamine or NE, and blocks their breakdown causing building up of DA and NE which causes the feeling of Euphoria and pleasure.
Clinical uses In treatment of ADHD Exogenous obisity.
Signs and symptoms of meth abuse:
Methamphetamine's negative effects include, but are not limited to, the following: Hyperactivity Irritability Visual hallucinations Auditory hallucinations (hearing "voices") Suicidal tendencies Aggression Suspiciousness, severe paranoia Shortness of breath Increased blood pressure Cardiac arrhythmia
Stroke Sweating Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea Long periods of sleep ("crashing" for 24-48 hours or more) Prolonged sluggishness, severe depression Weight loss, malnutrition, anorexia Itching (illusion that bugs are crawling on the skin) Welts on the skin Involuntary body movements Paranoid delusions
Physiological effects abnormally high blood pressure rapid and irregular heart rate and rhythm seizures damage to blood vessels in the brain (stroke) accumulation of excess fluid in lungs, brain tissue and skull continuous/excessive dilation of the pupils impaired regulation of heat loss hyperpyrexia (body temperatures higher than 104) internal bleeding; damage to other organs caused by disruption of blood flow and breakdown of muscle tissue leading to kidney failure
Routes of administration Many different routes of administration are used to take methamphetamine and it is typically used in a cycle. The drug may be snorted, smoked, orally ingested, or injected.
Acute Use of Meth:
As a powerful stimulant, methamphetamine, even in small doses, can increase wakefulness and physical activity and decrease appetite. A brief, intense sensation, or rush, is reported by those who smoke or inject methamphetamine. Oral ingestion or snorting produces a long-lasting high instead of a rush, which reportedly can continue for as long as half a day. Both the rush and the high are believed to result from the release of very high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine into areas of the brain that regulate feelings of pleasure
Long-term methamphetamine abuse results in many damaging effects, including addiction. Addiction is a chronic, relapsing condition, characterized by compulsive drug-seeking and drug use which is accompanied by functional and molecular changes in the brain
Chronic abuse of Meth
chronic methamphetamine abusers exhibit symptoms that can include violent behavior, anxiety, confusion, and insomnia. They also can display a number of psychotic features, including paranoia, auditory hallucinations, mood disturbances, and delusions (for example, the sensation of insects creeping on the skin, called "formication"). The paranoia can result in homicidal as well as suicidal thoughts.
Long term effect
Long-term effects of methamphetamine: dependence addiction psychosis paranoia hallucinations mood disturbances repetitive motor activity stroke weight loss
withdrawal an increased apetite. Symptoms may last for days with occasional use and weeks or months with chronic use, with severity dependent on the length of time and the amount of methamphetamine used. Withdrawal symptoms may also include anxiety, irritability,headaches, agitation,akathisia,hypersomnia, (excessive sleep) vivid or lucid dreams. Deep REM sleep and suicidal ideation.
Treatment of abuse Outpatient behavioral therapies are the standard treatment for methamphetamine abuse and dependence, although inpatient treatment is sometimes used.1 Cognitive behavior therapy and contingency management programs have been successfully used in treating cocaine addiction and may have some benefit in treating methamphetamine addiction
(Progress in Brain Research Volume 223) Ekhtiari, Hamed - Paulus, Martin-Neuroscience For Addiction Medicine - From Prevention To Rehabilitation - Constructs and Drugs-Elsevier (2016) PDF
(Progress in Brain Research Volume 223) Ekhtiari, Hamed - Paulus, Martin-Neuroscience For Addiction Medicine - From Prevention To Rehabilitation - Constructs and Drugs-Elsevier (2016) PDF
