Posted by Caleb462 on September 9, 2003, at 9:51:43
In reply to Re: amphetamine/brain damage?, posted by djmmm on September 9, 2003, at 8:44:33
> > I wouldn't consider amphetamines to be the safest drugs in existence. Amphetamine is not naturally produced by the brain. I don't know of any evidence that shows that oral methamphetamine lacks neurotoxic effects; I would agree that more could be known about this issue. The U.S. government does not only fund drug abuse studies.
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> > Also, in response to loolot's worries, Wellbutrin won't "fry" dopamine receptors in the brain. Even if it did, new receptors can be easily be produced to replaced damaged ones. Based on the pharmacological profile of Wellbutrin, there is no reason to believe that it exhibits neurotoxic effects.
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> > Shawn
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> I agree..amphetamine is a synthetic compound...maybe utopizen was thinking about Phenylalanine, one of many naturally occuring amphetamine-like substances in the body
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>Phenethylamine is the closest a brain chemical comes to amphetamine... and it is pretty darn close (amphetamine = alpha-methyl-phenethylamine)
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