Tag: methamphetamine
“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 ...
Why Is Harm Reduction for Queer Meth Users So Understudied?
It’s no secret that the US harm reduction movement prioritizes opioids and the people ...
Why Crystal Meth Has Made a Big Comeback in Philadelphia
Meth! Meth, crystal. Who wants meth?” shouted a middle-aged man in a parka earlier ...
Call to Develop Meth Addiction Meds Mustn’t Obscure Woeful Lack of Access to Existing Tools
Meth’s Resurgence Spotlights Lack of Meds to Combat the Addiction,” reads the headline of ...
