Tag: methamphetamine
Will the FDA Repeat Its “Abuse-Deterrent” Oxy Mistake With Stimulants?
OxyContin got a makeover in 2010. That year, the Food and Drug Administration approved ...
Ed Buck Charged With Felonies After Third Black Man OD-ed at His Home
Over the past two years, three Black gay men have overdosed (or overamped) on ...
Are Fentanyl-Meth Deaths in Indiana Due to Contamination, or “Speedballing”?
Marion County, Indiana is seeing a troubling rise in deaths related to methamphetamine combined ...
“I Am Not an Addict”—What Should “Recovery” Mean in 2019?
My name is Adi, and despite my years of struggling with meth addiction, I ...
What Should “Overdose Awareness” Really Mean?
Fatal overdoses may be slightly declining in the United States, according to preliminary 2018 ...
Why Researchers Are Ill-Equipped to Study Surging Meth Harms
In recent months, key government studies from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention ...
How Harm Reduction Is Serving—and Failing—Asian Americans
The “4th wave of the overdose crisis” has arrived, tweeted Brett Giroir, a top ...
Black New Yorkers Hospitalized for Amphetamines at Alarming Rates
In late October 2012, just days before Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, Dominic ...
Rising Meth-Involved Deaths of Major Concern Amid Estimated 2018 Overdose Fall
For the first time since the 1990s, fatal drug overdoses decreased in 2018, according ...
Arrested While “Panicking on Meth”—An Hour Later, He Was Dead
Alex Billmeyer was panicking when police swarmed a house in Dubuque, Iowa on May ...
