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‘Speed’ and other recreational stimulants tied to heart damage
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - Middle-aged adults who use recreational amphetamines like “speed,” “ecstasy” or “ice” may develop a prematurely aging heart and experience health problems normally associated with older people, a recent study suggests. People may crave the euphoric feelings produced by amphetamines, but these drugs have long been linked to heart attack, stroke, artery wall damage, bleeding in the brain, abnormal heart rhythm and sudden cardiac death, said lead study author Dr. Stuart Reece of the University of Western Australia in Crawley. “It makes sense that all these different issues are linked by an underlying acceleration of the aging effect,” Reece said by email.
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