Chronic methamphetamine use will cost us - emergency doctor

The consequences of chronic methamphetamine use are already visible in hospital wards, and it's about to get worse, an ...
Nature

Adolescent methamphetamine exposure drives neuroinflammation and aberrant neurogenesis linked to anxiety and cognitive impairments in adult mice

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 ...
Nature

Individuals with methamphetamine use disorder show reduced directed exploration and learning rates independent of an aversive interoceptive state induction

Methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) is associated with substantially reduced quality of life. Yet, decisions to use persist, due in part to avoidance of anticipated withdrawal states. However, the ...
Psychology Today

Medications for Methamphetamine Use Disorder

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 ...
Medical Xpress

Methamphetamine use linked to 1 in 6 heart attacks in California study

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 ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

New Insights Into Meth-Associated PAH Care Gaps: Anjali Vaidya, MD, on Closing the Divide

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

'No kind of intervention:' Meth overdoses on the rise in Maine

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 ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Methamphetamine a big contributor to Alaska’s opioid-dominated overdose deaths, report says

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 ...

Drug harm advocates warn the Canberra Liberals' proposal to recriminalise methamphetamine ignores evidence

Drug harm reduction advocates says there is little evidence that methamphetamine is more harmful in the ACT since being ...
PBS

1/23/25 Meth Overdoses by Hawaiʻi Seniors

Researchers are calling for additional studies to determine why seniors continue using meth. Methamphetamine poisoning is the leading cause of fatal overdoses among adults 50 to 79 in the islands, ...
Time

'Breaking Bad' Normalizes Meth Use, Argues Prosecutor

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 ...