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psychostimulant

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Category:en:Drugs A drug that acts to temporarily increase mental alertness or awareness

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Fuelling the atmosphere of restlessness is the growing use of methamphetamine (primarily d-methamphetamine hydrochloride, or crystal meth) — a highly addictive psychostimulant, which is the roughneck's drug of choice for two good reasons.

Ten years ago Blackley, who is from Melbourne, Australia, was found to have attention deficit disorder and was given a prescription for Adderall, a psychostimulant that some believe has been abused by some baseball players as a way of sneaking performance-enhancing amphetamines into their bloodstream to boost energy levels during games.

The police arrested a pilot from the country's largest private airline, Lion Air, last Saturday on suspicion of possessing crystal methamphetamine, a psychostimulant that increases alertness and concentration and can create feelings of euphoria.

Ritalin is a psychostimulant drug most commonly approved for treatment of ADHD in children.

A psychostimulant sometimes used in the treatment of attention deficit disorders.

8. Amphetamine Class B. A psychostimulant that combats fatigue and suppresses hunger.

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Carefully crafted combinations of drugs (e.g., beta-blockers, anticonvulsants, antipsychotics, antidepressants, and psychostimulants) have been used to improve brain function in these patients.

"The psychostimulants change the availability of dopamine in these same circuits".

The psychostimulants prescribed by doctors are thought to stimulate a part of the brain that changes mental and behavioural reactions.

Perry added that clinicians were also too readily prescribing psychostimulants to children when the evidence suggested there were no long-term benefits.

Such "psychostimulants" are thought to stimulate a part of the brain that changes mental and behavioural reactions.

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