Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: What are amphetamines and how do they work in the brain?
3: Medical uses of amphetamines
4: Amphetamines as performance enhancers
5: Illicit amphetamine use around the world
6: Amphetamine psychosis: how research on amphetamines provided new insights into the brain mechanisms underlying schizophrenia
7: How dangerous are the amphetamines?
8: Ecstasy
9: The future with amphetamines

Reviews

...a thoughtful adn thorough review of amphetamines from both the historical perspective of their use in society and from a more scientific view of their effects, uses (past, present, future), and dangers...well written, informative,a nd will be useful for a wide variety of readers.
*Michael Easton, MD, Rush University Medical Center*