People who use
methamphetamine or
cocaine on a
regular basis may have differences in those brain regions that are involved in
choosing between
right and
wrong, compared to people who
don't use these drugs, according to a new study of prison inmates. "This is the first study to suggest impairments in the neural systems of moral processing in both cocaine and methamphetamine users," says lead study author
Samantha Fede, a graduate student in the department of psychology at the University of New Mexico. READ MORE