Pubdate: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 Source: Billings Gazette, The (MT) Copyright: 2005 The Billings Gazette Contact: http://www.billingsgazette.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/515 Author: Diane Cochran Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm (Methamphetamine) RESEARCHER SAYS METH CARE EVOLVING Methamphetamine floods the brain with 10 times the pleasure of sex and 20 times the pleasure of food. It's no wonder so many people who try the drug become addicted. "There is nothing we can equate through natural phenomena or we can give through chemical phenomena that gives this rush," said Thomas Freese, a researcher with the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs in Los Angeles, during a presentation for medical staff at Deaconess Billings Clinic on Friday. - --- MAP posted-by: Beth