Amping the brain's amphetamine DAT drive

You know that rush you get after snorting a line of Cocaine? That's due to a fine mist of dopamine molecules purging from their synaptic terminals all at once; a little trick that amphetamines are famous for. Now what happens if you could deliver more dopamine per rush? That's exactly what mad scientists are trying to do with DAT enhancers, drugs that help manufacture the transport proteins needed to handle the surplus dopamine output seen in amphetamine stimulation.

To investigate the consequence of high DAT levels, the researchers developed transgenic mice with three-fold higher levels of DAT compared with unmodified animals. The authors discovered that [amphetamine] was more powerful in animals with more DAT. The dopamine-enhanced animals were more sensitive to the effects of amphetamines, becoming hyperactive and more rewarded by the drug, according to the authors.

Yes, making recreational drug use more rewarding is exactly where I want my tax money going. Extrapolating this out to absurd levels, imagine cutting your speed with industrial DAT enhancers imported from China, and then being able to go three days without sleep on a single hit of meth. What would you call that? Turbo-meth? No, that's already taken. Stupid media.