Methamphetamine Abuse Miscellaneous Essay
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For a shorter duration of time, the user feels more energetic, stronger, and sharper (Romanelli & Smith, 2006). This has made methamphetamine a popular drug of abuse, since most of the initial users often take recourse to chronic use. Many authorities believe that with prolonged exposure to even very low dose of methamphetamine, a significant proportion of dopaminergic brain cells would eventually get damaged beyond recovery, mainly due to chronic low levels of dopamine within the brain cells, leading to serious compromise in attention, memory, and decision making functions.