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Misuse of amphetamines and related drugs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Nicholas Seivewright  and
Charles McMahon
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This article discusses the misuse of drugs which act as stimulants, an effect mainly produced by enhancement of the central transmission of catecholamines, particularly dopamine. Stimulant misuse is extremely widespread in the UK and elsewhere, but primary users of such drugs present relatively rarely for treatment at drug services. At present such services mainly see heroin users, not only because the greater addictiveness of heroin produces generally higher levels of problems, but because a substitute treatment can be used in that group in the form of methadone.

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Research Article
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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 2 , Issue 5 , September 1996 , pp. 211 - 218
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1996 

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