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Article: Driving under the influence of central stimulant amines: age and gender differences in concentrations of amphetamine, methamphetamine, and ecstasy in blood *.(Report)
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- Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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CENTRAL STIMULANT AMINES, particularly amphetamine and, more recently, the secondary amine methamphetamine, have been predominant among drugs of abuse in Sweden for many decades (Goldberg, 1968; Hartelius and Jones, 1995). For example, these stimulants are identified in 55%-60% of all blood samples submitted by the police for toxicological analysis from people arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs (DUID; Holmgren et al., 2007; Jones, 2005). Use of the designer drug ecstasy (3,4-methylendioxymethamphetamine [MDMA]) is a more recent phenomenon that emerged along with the rave culture of the 1990s (Hall and Henry, 2006).
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