methamphetamine

One possible case in point, the mathematician's mathematician Paul Erdős, who was said to be a heavy methamphetamine user.

If you criminalize methamphetamine, you cannot also criminalize pseudoephedrine, because it is still a decongestant cold remedy, which is an innocent purpose.

As another person pointed out, methamphetamine is sold in the US as Desoxyn.

This is the same basic mechanism of caffeine, nicotine, methylphenidate (Ritalin), amphetamine (Aderol), cocaine and methamphetamine.

There are some (legal) medications, wich can indicate optium- and methamphetamine-addiction.

If you also include the methamphetamine row, that number is a lot higher, in 2007 in particular it was present in 38.6% of the pills tested.

Amphetamine and methamphetamine is not the same drug.

They can't even make methamphetamine without screwing up.

Heroin is diamorphine, methamphetamine is Desoxyn, etc.

The difference between amphetamine and methamphetamine is largely in the effective dose needed by weight, because the extra methyl group lets the drug cross the blood-brain barrier more easily.

The ensuing search revealed methamphetamine.

Different drugs have differing uses, effects and bind to various receptors, thus there is little reason to believe why an interest in sedatives like cannabis would lead to trying stimulants like methamphetamine.

In the same way, most people who use other drugs, like methamphetamine and cocaine, are not addicted and do not need or want "treatment".

A report by the National Drug Intelligence Center released last August, “National Drug Threat Assessment 2011,” stated methamphetamine use was increasing, especially among the young.

At least we now have a specific definition for "crystal meth" (methamphetamine hydrochloride).

>>"Research into the pharmacologic treatment of methamphetamine addiction has largely been limited to studies in animals.

Methamphetamine is available with a prescription and heroin/opioids are generally available with a prescription as well.

Methamphetamine is NOT illegal in the US (trade name Desoxyn).

Methamphetamine is not some magic cure-all.