Undergraduate students were recruited to participate in an online survey to report their use of amphetamine stimulants and other drugs. Significant differences were found between students reporting (n=79; 4.0%) and not reporting (n=1,897; 96%) amphetamine-stimulant use in the past month - in terms of race/ethnicity, class standing, residence, health symptoms, self-health report - in addition to...

Of all possible childhood disorders, attentiondeficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) accounts for more than any mental health, special education, and behavioral referrals in pediatric medicine. Behavioral modification techniques and stimulant medications are the mainstay of current ADHD therapy. Adderall, which is a mixture of 75% of the d-isomer of amphetamine and 25% of the lisomer, is one of ...

It has previously been shown that rats trained 5 hr after intracerebral injection of acetoxycycloheximide show a transient amnesia at 24 hr after training. We have tested the possibility that adrenergic stimulants might provide protection from the amnesia. Metaraminol, given either before or after training or before testing, prevents the drug-induced amnesia. D-Amphetamine, injected soon after ...

OBJECTIVE A primary motive for adolescents and young adults to nonmedically use prescription stimulants is to help them study. Adolescents and young adults are using prescription stimulants, such as Adderall (amphetamine aspartate, amphetamine sulfate, dextroamphetamine saccharate, dextroamphetamine sulfate), as performance enhancers in certain social domains, including academics and sports. Th...

conclusions performing htp can improve hopefulness and symptoms of patients, specially addicted ones. in addition, it can prevent substance abusers from returning to drugs and leaving the treatment period unfinished. results the results showed that f value of mean scores in depression and hope post-tests of the experimental and control groups are 24.94 and 25.73, respectively, which are signifi...

Treatment guidelines from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics state that stimulant medications have the most evidence for safety and efficacy in the treatment of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Longer-acting stimulants are thus considered as first-line for management of ADHD symptoms. Over the years, concerns ...

adnexal tumors (ats) are primary skin tumors with benign or rarely, malignant behavior. they have been classified based on differentiation towards hair follicle, sebaceous, apocrine or eccrine gland. few large-scale studies have focused on ats. to determine the prevalence of ats and to assess clinical and histopathological trend of ats. a retrospective descriptive study of all ats diagnosed in ...

Studies conducted with nonhuman laboratory animals have consistently shown that atypical antipsychotics that are mixed dopamine and serotonin antagonists attenuate the discriminative-stimulus effects of amphetamine. In the present experiment, eight healthy humans learned to discriminate 15 mg of oral d-amphetamine. After acquiring the discrimination (i.e., > or = 80% correct responding on four ...