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Young Women Doing Dangerous 'Ice' To Lose Weight
A trend is emerging of young women taking the dangerous and powerful street drug ice in a bid to lose weight, a shocking new study has revealed. The scary trend has come to surface in the current issue of the International Journal of Eating Disorders.
According to Sydney University professor Suzanne Abraham, one of the report authors, women are not only risking developing an eating disorder but also addiction to the destructive drug. Professor Abraham said ice, or crystal methamphetamine, was like a supercharged version of the ordinary weight loss pill, which contains ephedrine, but people did not get addicted to the ordinary pills.
"Ice
use
is
increasing
in
young
women
and
is
being
used
as
an
efficient
method
of
weight
loss,"
Couriermail
quoted
her,
as
saying.
"The
drug
may
also
trigger
the
development
of
an
eating
disorder
in
some
people,"
she
added.
The latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare figures show that in 2004, 3.2 per cent of Australians aged 14 and older had used amphetamines for non-medical purposes in the past year and 38 per cent of this group reported the drug they used as ice.
At
least
three
young
ice
users
have
already
been
admitted
to
a
Sydney
eating
disorder
clinic.
All
three
women
had
used
ice
daily
and
showed
a
range
of
withdrawal
symptoms,
tolerance
and
dependence.
One
of
them,
aged
21,
refused
to
leave
her
house,
smoking
ice
and
exercising
excessively.