Methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) remains one of the most underserved disorders in addiction medicine, largely because there are no FDA-approved medications for its treatment—yet. The 2024 National ...
Violence associated with psychoactive substance use has long been recognized as a contributing factor in assaults and homicides. Although doctors can’t diagnose a person whom they haven’t personally ...
Methamphetamine use is on the rise around the US, with implications for heart health: a new study from California suggests that around one in six MIs occurring in adults up to age 65 years may have ...
The prevalence of methamphetamine use in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) was close to 15% in one Northern California medical center, and the drug resulted in significantly ...
I work as a felony prosecutor in a town where methamphetamine is our biggest narcotics problem. I’m also a big fan of Breaking Bad, but whenever I ask colleagues (particularly law-enforcement officers ...
Drug harm reduction advocates says there is little evidence that methamphetamine is more harmful in the ACT since being decriminalised, despite a Canberra Liberals commitment to recriminalise it if ...
Editor’s note: We recently asked readers to send in their most burning questions about homelessness. One of the top questions was: Does addiction cause homelessness? This post is our first attempt to ...
25-year-old Jodie Rameka wrote and hand-delivered letters to stores in Whangārei's CBD explaining the harm caused by meth.