Bupropion Drug

A common antidepressant, bupropion, can reduce the craving for methamphetamine, providing the possibility of a drug treatment for the powerfully addictive stimulant, according to a study by UCLA researchers published today. Dr. Thomas F. Newton, a UCLA psychiatrist who led the study, found that subjects who were given bupropion reported a lesser high after a meth injection as well as a less intense craving after watching a video of actors favorably portraying meth use.

A common antidepressant, bupropion, can reduce the craving for methamphetamine, providing the possibility of a drug treatment for the powerfully addictive stimulant, according to a study by UCLA researchers published today. Dr. Thomas F. Newton, a UCLA psychiatrist who led the study, found that subjects who were given bupropion reported a lesser high after a meth injection as well as a less intense craving after watching a video of actors favorably portraying meth use.

Folic acid may slow the onset of Alzheimer's disease and minimize the severity of its symptoms, according to epidemiologist David Snowdon of the University of Kentucky. The findings, presented last week at the National Institutes of Health, echo results obtained last year in England in a different population and suggest that physicians now have one more way to combat this debilitating, eventually fatal disease.