Methamphetamine Dependency

methamphetamine dependency

Exercise training improves heart rate variability after methamphetamine dependency.

PURPOSE Heart rate variability (HRV) reflects a healthy autonomic nervous system and is increased with physical training. Methamphetamine dependence (MD) causes autonomic dysfunction and diminished HRV. We compared recently abstinent methamphetamine-dependent participants with age-matched, drug-free controls (DF) and also investigated whether HRV can be improved with exercise training in the me...

Methamphetamine abuse.

Methamphetamine is a stimulant commonly abused in many parts of the United States. Most methamphetamine users are white men 18 to 25 years of age, but the highest usage rates have been found in native Hawaiians, persons of more than one race, Native Americans, and men who have sex with men. Methamphetamine use produces a rapid, pleasurable rush followed by euphoria, heightened attention, and in...

How do methamphetamine users respond to changes in methamphetamine price?

One of the core objectives of supply-side drug law enforcement is to reduce drug use by raising the cost of buying drugs. The effectiveness of this strategy depends on how illicit drug users respond to the rise in costs. The aim of the current study was to estimate how methamphetamine users would respond to changes in the prices of methamphetamine and heroin, using hypothetical drug purchasing ...

Methamphetamine and Pregnancy

Few provisions of the Bill of Rights are as utterly American as the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. This amendment grew from the experience of the colonials in America as well as from their English roots. “Every man’s house is his castle.” But what of the body of a woman? This chapter evaluates how the courts attempt to balance the rights of a fetus with the rights of its mother. Is it ri...