Methamphetamine Enters Brain Quickly And Lingers
Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 01:21
in Health & Medicine
Using positron emission tomography to track tracer doses of methamphetamine in humans' brains, scientists find that the addictive and long-lasting effects of this increasingly prevalent drug can be explained in part by its pharmacokinetics -- the rate at which it enters and clears the brain, and its distribution.
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