methamphetamine

Decades After It Set Meth Sentencing by Purity, USSC Surveys the Damage

Almost all controlled substances in the United States are criminalized by weight. There are thresholds that legally separate possession from…

June 20, 2024

White House Meth Plan Still Includes Harm Reduction, Just Not for Meth

Once the federal government designated methamphetamine an “emerging drug threat” in March 2022, the White House Office of National Drug…

June 10, 2024

Stimulant Treatment Research Finally Uses Outcome Besides Abstinence

To whatever degree harm reduction has gotten mainstreamed, it still hasn't budged the meaning of “treatment” and how we measure…

January 10, 2024

How Common Is Fentanyl in Samples of Cocaine and Meth?

At face value, a recent study shows that fentanyl was quite common in samples of unregulated stimulant drugs taken from…

December 18, 2023

Harm Reduction for Short-Term Meth Withdrawal

Withdrawal from opioids is so thoroughly studied that the process is regularly referenced in media and pop culture. Many symptoms…

December 14, 2023

Many People Left to Make Their Own Stimulant Pipes and Face the Risks

Across the globe, people who use stimulants have devised creative, sometimes ingenious, smoking tools. Often used to heat up and…

September 27, 2023

Which Meth Users Is Contingency Management Supposed to Be For?

California's contingency management (CM) program is slowly getting off the ground, following the Medi-Cal expansion in 2022 that allowed the…

August 29, 2023

If Fentanyl Were in Fake Adderall Pills, the DEA Would’ve Proved It by Now

On August 25, the New York Office of Public Safety held a briefing ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day. It…

August 28, 2023

Do Any Other Meth Users Find These Labels Pretty Arbitrary?

If any of you use stimulants and have a particularly good system for waking up on time, I wouldn’t mind…

July 5, 2023

It’s Not a Meth Overdose Crisis. It’s a Data Crisis.

When someone dies without a doctor present, and they hadn't seen a doctor anytime recently, a local medical examiner will…

June 26, 2023