Follow a raid on a suspected meth lab, spy on a pharmacy where addicts buy pills in bulk, and meet a neuroscientist looking for a cure.
Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant in the phenethylamine and amphetamine-type psychotropic drugs. Methamphetamine increases alertness, focus, and energy, and high doses can cause euphoria, boost self-esteem, and libido.
Methamphetamine has a high potential for abuse and addiction and activates the psychological reward system by triggering a cascade release of dopamine in the brain.
Methamphetamine is FDA-approved for the treatment of ADHD and exogenous obesity. It is sold in the United States under the brand name Desoxyn.
Due to the neurotoxicity of methamphetamine on dopaminergic neurons, long-term abuse can also lead to symptoms lasting for several months or even more than a year after the withdrawal period after acute withdrawal.
A study of Japanese female prisoners suffering from methamphetamine addiction showed that 20% experienced a schizophrenia-like psychosis lasting more than six months after using methamphetamine; this amphetamine psychosis May be resistant to traditional treatments.
