Re:New drug to treat meth addiction receives major NIH grant
by woah on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:57PM
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The article you link is debunking the "new meth" theory being pushed by https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
And probably rightfully so. The Atlantic article did not have any information about anyone having done any research uncovering a "new type of meth" and was basing that conclusion only on the reporter's leading questions to uninformed people.
There seems to be a tendency for reporters to make a fuss about supposedly new, more dangerous versions of common drugs, like the "skunk" hysteria of the 2000's. Probably gets more clicks than just writing about how drug addiction is still a problem just as it has been for thousands of years.
Re:New drug to treat meth addiction receives major NIH grant
by pvarangot on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:40PM
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That article is saying that's there's just more and cheaper meth, with the same chemical structure as always but less of the non-psychoactive enantiomer. That the "chemical structure changed" was in another bullshit article that popped up here a few days before and it's just not what's going on with the meth supply chain.
The chemical structure has changed over time and that has made people more 'crazy'. I really hope that research like this works to help people.