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Methamphetamine

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This comprehensive overview of methamphetamine addiction explores its allure, including the fight-or-flight response, dopamine release, and social factors that drive usage. We discuss how individuals may try meth to escape emotions, lose weight, or stay awake for cramming. The article highlights the physical and psychological toll of addiction, including the gradual loss of brain function, receptor deterioration, and the automaticity of addicted behaviors. Long-term effects, such as "meth mouth" and accelerated aging, are critically examined, along with references to scientific studies and resources.

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Methamphetamine

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  1. By Jennifer Long Methamphetamine

  2. High on Meth • Fight or Flight • Dopamine Release

  3. Why Would You Try It? • Social • Lose Weight • Escape from Emotions • Staying up to Cram

  4. Becoming an Addict • Receptors Die • Tolerance

  5. Becoming an Addict • Neurons Thicken • Hardwired • Behavior Becomes Automatic

  6. Long Term Effects • Meth Mouth • Progressed Aging

  7. Long Term Effects • Reduced Brain Function • Fewer Receptors

  8. Works Cited • Slide 4 Genetic Science Learning Center. "Beyond the Reward Pathway." Learn.Genetics14 April 2013 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/reward/pathways.html • Slide 5Genetic Science Learning Center. "The New Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain." Learn.Genetics20 April 2013 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction • Slide 6 "Faces of Meth." Faces of Meth. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office , n.d. Web. 21 Apr 2013. <http://www.facesofmeth.us/>. "Meth Mouth." Mouth Healthy. American Dental Association, n.d. Web. 19 Apr 2013. <http://www.mouthhealthy.org/en/az-topics/m/meth-mouth.asp&xgt;. • Slide 7 Genetic Science Learning Center. "Drugs Alter the Brain's Reward Pathway." Learn.Genetics16 April 2013 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/index.html Volkow, Nora. "Loss of Dopamine Transporters in Methamphetamine Abusers Recovers with Protracted Abstinence." Journal of Neuroscience. The Society for Neuroscience, 01 Dec 2001. Web. 15 Apr 2013.

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