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July 1988 in “JAMA” This article discusses reported cases of diffuse scalp hair thinning in women using amphetamines and suggests no clear cause-effect relationship with amphetamine use based on available evidence.
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May 2001 in “Journal of Analytical Toxicology” This study found that amphetamine was preferentially incorporated into black hair compared to white hair in Long-Evans rats, suggesting a role for drug basicity in hair color-based drug incorporation.
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February 2002 in “European Neuropsychopharmacology” The researchers found that using hair analysis to detect past use of cannabinoids or amphetamines in individuals with psychosis was limited by individual variations in hair growth rates, affecting the method's reliability.
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January 2013 in “Digital Scholarship - UNLV (University of Nevada Reno)” This study hypothesized that finasteride administration may increase stress-induced amphetamine locomotor sensitization due to its impact on brain reward systems involving the neurosteroid allopregnanolone.
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May 1991 in “Psychosomatics” This review examines alopecia as a side effect of psychotropic medications, noting that it is typically reversible after stopping the drug, but it reports no new results.