Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: This article discusses the misuse of drugs which act as stimulants, an effect mainly produced by enhancement of the central transmission of catecholamines, particularly dopamine. Stimulant misuse is extremely widespread in the UK and elsewhere, but primary users of such drugs present relatively rarely for treatment at drug services. At present such services mainly see heroin users, not only because the greater addictiveness of heroin produces generally higher levels of problems, but because a substitute treatment can be used in that group in the form of methadone.
DOI: 10.1192/apt.2.5.211
Authors: Nicholas Seivewright, Charles McMahon
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2105094235