
Amphetamine abuse can lead to multiple serious mental and physical health risks, including chronic psychiatric problems, psychotic behavior, memory loss, mood disturbances, severe dental problems, malnutrition, and heart damage, such as rapid or irregular heartbeats. Recent clinical reports have found possible connections between amphetamine abuse and heart attack as well as aortic dissection.
Nature versus nurture debates concern the relative importance of an individual’s innate qualities (“nature”) versus life experiences and the individual’s environment (“nurture”) in determining individual difference in physical and behavioral traits.
Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health studied the drinking habits of 9,833 15- to 16-year-olds in the North West of England, finding that excessively low cost alcohol products and illicit purchase are strongly related to harmful underage drinking.