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    The history of the drug Methamphetamine (MA) abuse is a growing epidemic world wide. The 2009 World Drug report suggests that up to 51 million individuals have used methamphetamine at least once in the past 12 months. Dependence is a serious worldwide public health problem associated with major medical, psychiatric, cognitive, socioeconomic and legal consequences (Petit et al., 2012). This is can be easily made with ingredients that are easily obtained. Methamphetamine was developed in Japan

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    common pills for cold remedies are used as the basis to manufacture methamphetamine. The meth “cook” starts by extracting ephedrine from cold tablets or products with either pseudoephedrine in them or something that is of pseudoephedrine genetic qualities. This process of extraction is done with chemicals such as denatured alcohol or some other kinds of solvent. Once the ephedrine is extracted from the cold remedy products, it is combined with chemicals that may include red phosphorus and iodine crystals

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    Ergogenic aids are substances or devices that enhance energy production, for use for recovery and provide athletes with a competitive advantage. Numerous ergogenic aids claim to enhance sports performance and are used by amateur and professional athletes. Approximately 50 percent of the general population has reported taking some form of dietary supplements, while 76 to 100 percent of athletes in some sports are reported to use them. Physicians can evaluate these products by examining four factors

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    1. • Methamphetamine is a central nervous system stimulant; it enhances the neurotransmitter dopamine release in the centers of the brain. It also blocks the reuptake of the neurotransmitter in the synaptic cleft to the presynaptic neuron. As a result, euphoria, mood swings and aggressiveness are common consequences of such over-activation of the neurotransmitter in the sensory input (Richards et al. 2016). Mood changes and depression of nerves firing action potentials are some of many health dangers

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    The meth epidemic of the United States has been invasive and problematic from the time it was introduced from the early 1900’s until now. Though introduced through pharmaceutical companies for treatment from depression to colds, the drug has become one of America’s most addictive, abusive, and destructive drugs. The economy and the role of the government, as well as pharmaceutical companies, play the main role in how meth was introduced and the reason it is still abused today. The novel, by Nick

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    U.s. Gangs And The Gangs

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    Drug routes are associated and may have originated with U.S. gangs in an effort for drug cartels to amp up and focus on their production, leaving the logistics to the gangs. The drug cartels have chosen to align with U.S. gangs based on similar philosophies of honor, allegiance, and loyalty combined with similar business practices and levels of hierarchy. The largest U.S. gangs are structured similarly to giant corporations that succeed with levels of management teams with the ultimate goal of

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    there are several possible dose dependent side effects some users may experience. When using Clenbuterol alongside any other adrenoceptor agonists, side effects might be cumulative. For that reason, using Clenbuterol in conjunction to ephedrine/epherda or ephedrine-caffeine-aspiring is not recommended. Intake of clen is also advised against for people with cardiac issues and/or

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    Three decades later, a pharmacologist named Akira Ogata synthesized methamphetamine hydrochloride – Desoxyn – via reduction of ephedrine using red phosphorus and iodine. During World War II, a Berlin-based Temmler pharmaceutical company sold methamphetamine in tablet form under the brand name, Pervitin, and became colloquially known among the German troops as “Stuka-Tablets” and “Herman-Göring-Pills”

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    Annotated Bibliography My project title is an in-vitro investigation into the claims on the mechanism of action of non-prescription “diet pills/remedies”. The research I completed mostly entailed of articles that I found online through EBSCO host database, other databases were used such as Embase and Ovid etc. Nevertheless, I found EBSCO to be the most relevant to my subject. Once I was searching for the articles, research had to be done beforehand on the ingredients used in diet pills as articles

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    I enjoyed reading your post. Is this an agency you are looking for employment with? The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) sound like an exciting job to have knowing that a person involved with that agency is doing something against the war on drugs. One of the great things that President Richard Nixon did was to sign the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act on in the late 1970’s. This Act involved Attorney General John Mitchell, who was head of the Justice Department at the time and

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