1. By Jennifer Long
Methamphetamine

2. High on Meth
Fight or Flight
Dopamine Release

3. Why Would You Try It? Social Lose Weight Escape from Emotions
Staying up to Cram

4. Becoming an Addict
Receptors Die
Tolerance

5. Becoming an Addict Neurons Thicken Hardwired
Behavior Becomes Automatic

6. Long Term Effects
Meth Mouth
Progressed Aging

7. Long Term Effects
Reduced Brain Function
Fewer Receptors

8. Works Cited
Slide 4
Genetic Science Learning Center. "Beyond the Reward Pathway." Learn.Genetics14 April
Slide 5 Genetic Science Learning Center. "The New Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain." Learn.Genetics 20 April
Slide 6
"Faces of Meth." Faces of Meth. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office , n.d. Web. 21 Apr <
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Slide 7
Genetic Science Learning Center. "Drugs Alter the Brain's Reward Pathway." Learn.Genetics16 April
Volkow, Nora. "Loss of Dopamine Transporters in Methamphetamine Abusers Recovers with Protracted Abstinence." Journal of Neuroscience. The Society for Neuroscience, 01 Dec Web. 15 Apr 2013.