The adolescent brain, characterized by its high plasticity, is particularly vulnerable to substance abuse, leading to long-term impacts on brain function and behavior. Methamphetamine (METH), a potent ...

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 ...

WHERE IT CAME TO DRUGS -- THINGS WERE SEEMINGLY LOOKING UP FOR THE STATE. EXPERTS AND HEALTH PROVIDERS SAY IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT BEAST TO THE DRUGS THAT HAVE PREVIOUSLY HELD A GRIP ON MAINE "IT'S ...

Methamphetamine (meth) use accounted for nearly 15% of heart attacks for a decade in a northern California study, published today in JAHA. "Even though meth users were generally younger and didn't ...

Drug addiction has persisted as a public health issue in Malaysia for several decades. Despite extensive government initiatives to reduce drug misuse, the number of people who use drugs (PWUD) has ...

Research from Anjali Vaidya, MD, FACC, FASE, FACP, Temple University Hospital, reveals critical care gaps for patients with methamphetamine-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), ...

For the first time, people who want to stop using crystal methamphetamine may be able to treat their addiction with a cheap and readily available medication, say researchers at the National Drug and ...

Jodie Rameka says glass pipes are being sold in every $2 shop she visited, along with vape stores and even dairies.

While opioids have been involved in most of Alaska’s drug overdose deaths, another drug is a frequent contributor to those outcomes: methamphetamine. A little over half of the fatal overdoses in ...

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 ...