A Study on the Effects of Methamphetamine: a Review and Critique – Jones for Justice

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[1] See Sara Harris. 2007. “Meth exposure in young adults leads to long-term behavioral consequences.” Society for Neuroscience, public release 14 August. Online at: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/sfn-mei081307.php#. Contact Ms. Harris at [email protected]; or 202-962-4000

[2] Journal of Neuroscience, August 15, 2007, volume 27, number 33:8816-8825. Online at: http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/33/8816. Received Aug. 11, 2006; revised June 11, 2007; accepted June 27, 2007.

[3] Journal of Neuroscience, August 15, 2007, volume 27, number 33:8816-8825. Online at: http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/33/8816. Received Aug. 11, 2006; revised June 11, 2007; accepted June 27, 2007.

[4] Journal of Neuroscience, August 15, 2007, volume 27, number 33:8816-8825. Online at: http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/33/8816.

[5]Murdo Macleod. 2007. “UK troops receiving ‘trigger happy’ drug.” Scotsman Sunday, 10 July, http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=906322007

[6] The report was first issued in 1998 and subsequently revised in 2002 and 2006. See National Institute on Drug Abuse, Research Report – Methamphetamine Abuse and Addiction, www.drugabuse.gov/ResearchReports/methamph/methamph.html

[7] http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/meth/meth_dose.shtml

[8] Editor’s note: Erowid does not present any consideration of bodyweight.

[9] http://www.kci.org/meth_info/faq_meth.htm

[10] Jeralyn (2005) at TalkLeft cites Ulrich (infra) and describes Pervitin as: “five milligrams of cocaine, three milligrams of Pervitin and five milligrams of Eukodal (a morphine-based painkiller).” See http://www.talkleft.com/story/2005/05/11/574/20039

[11] Andreas Ulrich. 2005. “The Nazi Death Machine: Hitler’s Drugged Soldiers.” Der Spiegel (The Mirror), 6 May. http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,354606,00.html

[12] Ulrich (2005).

[13] See Melegal et al. 2007. “Long-Term Methamphetamine Administration in the Vervet Monkey Models Aspects of a Human Exposure: Brain Neurotoxicity and Behavioral Profiles,” Neuropsychopharmacology. Correspondence: Dr WP Melega, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Box 951735, 28-117 BRI, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1735; E-mail: [email protected]

[14] Jack Herer. 2006. The Emperor Wears No Clothes.

[15] http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/cocaine/crackbb2.htm

[16] See Science, 26 September 2002.

[17] http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/257/fullofholes.shtml

[18] Paltrow, Lynn. 1999. “Pregnant Drug Users, Fetal Persons, and the Threat to Roe v. Wade.” 62 Alb. L. Rev. 999, 1024-1025

[19] Paltrow, Lynn. 1999. “Pregnant Drug Users, Fetal Persons, and the Threat to Roe v. Wade.” 62 Alb. L. Rev. 999, 1024-1025

[20] http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3273

[21] http://www.answers.com/topic/epidemic?cat=health

[22] http://www.answers.com/topic/epidemic?cat=health

[23] http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5881

[24] http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/index.html

[25] http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/index.html

[26] http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic428.htm

[27] See Sara Harris. 2007. “Meth exposure in young adults leads to long-term behavioral consequences.” Society for Neuroscience, public release 14 August.

[28] http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/methamphetamine.html

[29] http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/180986.pdf

[30] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/31000.html

[31] http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs07/717/meth.htm

[32] http://www.drug-rehabs.org/content.php?cid=1530&state=South%20Carolina

[33] See South Carolina Vitality and Morbidity Statistics.

[34] See South Carolina, Detailed Mortality Statistics.

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