Amphetamine oral tablet is available as brand-name drugs. It’s not available as a generic drug. Brand names: Evekeo, Adzenys XR-ODT. Amphetamine comes in three forms: oral tablet, extended-release ...

Amphetamines are a type of drug that stimulate the nervous system. Doctors prescribe amphetamines for conditions such as ADHD, obesity, narcolepsy, and depression. Misusing amphetamines, or taking ...

Use of amphetamine and methamphetamine is widespread in the general population and common among patients with psychiatric disorders. Amphetamines may induce symptoms of psychosis very similar to those ...

The bottle of multivitamins at left were typical of the ways Americans became addicted to amphetamines. AP Photo/Al Grillo Susanna McBee walked into the office of a doctor she’d never met before, ...

The illicit use of amphetamines, the stimulants commonly known as 'speed', is linked to a 5-fold heightened risk of psychosis, finds a 10 year study published online in the journal Evidence-Based ...

Amphetamine use in adolescence can cause neurobiological imbalances and increase risk-taking behavior, and these effects can persist into adulthood, even when subjects are drug free. These are the ...

Amphetamine may slow down the rise of temperature in the body and mask fatigue, which could allow athletes to run significantly longer but result in potentially dangerous overheating of muscles, ...

Researchers developed a new weight loss amphetamine that could potentially avoid the side effects of older treatments. Historically, amphetamine-like drugs such as FDA-approved phentermine have been ...

Repeated intermittent treatment with amphetamine increases the density of dendritic spines on medium spiny neurons (MSNs) in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc). The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) ...

An amphetamine-like compound that has never been tested in humans is present in a range of popular diet pills and sports supplements, a study in a pharmacological journal has found. The substance, ...