"Crank" is also "cooked" in large quantities in U.S.
by biker gangs as a money-making enterprise. It is
cheap, easy to produce, and profitable. Also sold in
rural communities for same reason. Only hazard-except
for obvious one to one's health-is that it is
notoriously volatile and liable to blow away both you
and your house if you're not careful when brewing it.
Carole H.
Methamphetamine works like this: it sends a message to
brain cells to fire more dopamine, a feel-
good chemical that is also critical to normal brain
functioning.
Hours after it's ingested, cell receptors begin to
turn off to slow the flow of dopamine, and here's
where methamphetamine differs from other stimulants,
such as cocaine.
While other stimulants allow brain cells to capture
and repackage the dopamine,
methamphetamine doesn't. The brain cells respond by
releasing an enzyme to knock out the
extra dopamine. With repeated use, those enzymes
eventually kill the dopamine cell, and that
leads to a chemical change in the way your brain
works.
"Ever heard of Parkinson's Disease?" asks
Broadhead."That's what you look like." RE: relevance
to PD, from a link to: http://www.crystalmeth.org/
//// --- William Harshaw <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Roger,
>
> Thanks for the leads on crystal meth. Very useful
>
> Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Buxton <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Crystal Methamphetamine
>
>
> >Bill:
> >
> >I expect you were stimulated to ask your question
> about Crystal
> >Methamphetamine upon reading today's Globe and
> Mail.
> >
> >Here are a couple of sites which provide some
> answer to your question in
> >relation to PD-like effects. They are not
> particularly informative, as
> >they only make statements without any supporting
> references. However,
> >the first one has institutional credibility, and
> may be the source of
> >the statement in the G&M.
> >
> >http://165.112.78.61/Infofax/methamphetamine.html
>
>http://www.hyperreal.org/drugs/stimulants/amphetamine.info
> >
> >The following sites give some information without
> any comment about PD:
> >
>
>http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/publications/iprc/factline/ampet.html
> >http://www.kci.org/meth_info/sites/meth_facts2.htm
> >http://www.elks.org/drugs/da_meth.cfm
>
>http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol11N5/Tearoff.html
> >http://165.112.78.61/DrugPages/Methamphetamine.html
> >
> >These may give you some direction for further
> digging.
> >
> >Rgds
> >Roger Buxton
> >
>
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