Crystal meth probe as addiction grows
The number of people being treated for amphetamine addiction has also jumped 77 per cent from 3369 episodes of care in 2010-11 to 4886 in 2011-12. This has been accompanied by a 194 per cent surge in calls to Victoria's drug helpline, DirectLine, which …
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Enzymatic Pathway Common to Drugs of Abuse Could Lead to New Treatments
"We extended this observation to most drugs of abuse, including amphetamine, nicotine, morphine and delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol. ERK activation is functionally important since its pharmacological blockade prevents gene expression and long-term …
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Novel Therapeutic Opportunity in Narcolepsy
… significantly from those of twice-a-day modafinil, a currently used comparator, it was well tolerated compared with modafinil and did not show any manifestation of addiction potential associated with the use of typical psychostimulants of the …
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