BRITISH Correspondence Letters to the Editor should not exceed 500 words. Amphetamine Prescribing SIR,-Scarcely a day passes without news of another drug haul from a chemist's shop. Thousands of tablets are stolen, and the majority are probably amphetamines. A glance at the Proprietary Drug Lists will show there are at least twenty-two preparations containing amphetamine alone or in combination...

Methylphenidate is a central nervous system stimulant pharmacologically related to amphetamines frequently used in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. Haemorrhagic stroke is a rare but well-known potential side-effect of amphetamine abuse, however, cerebral ischaemia has been reported casuistically (Rothrock et al., 1988). Here, we present incidence of a reversible i...

Sydenham’s chorea (SC) is common cause of acquired in childhood. SC occurs mainly children with untreated streptococcal infections. An effective list therapeutic options has been used to treat this disorder: antiepileptic drugs (valproic acid, carbamazepine etc.), haloperidol, chlorpromazine, amphetamines, steroids, plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG). We report a 12-year-old...

The National Toxicology Program (NTP) Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) conducted an evaluation of the potential for amphetamines to cause adverse effects on reproduction and development in humans. Amphetamines evaluated were D- and D,L-amphetamine and methamphetamine. Amphetamine is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of attention ...

Background: Parkinson’s disease is described as hypokinetic symptoms with cardinal features such as tremors, bradykinesia, gait difficulties as well as cognitive problems. Much research has been done with regards to drugs of abuse such as opiates, amphetamines, cocaine as well as therapeutic drugs causing this disease.

BACKGROUND Studies on the 'self-medication hypothesis' have focused on substance abuse as an attempt to alleviate emotional suffering. METHODS We have investigated concomitant substances of abuse in 150 bipolar heroin addicts clustered according to their clinical presentation at treatment entry (depressive episode, hypomanic episode, manic episode and mixed episode). Bipolar heroin addicted p...