Tag: stimulants
I Just Overdosed Again. This Time, It Was Different.
I’ve been using drugs—opioids, stimulants and many others—on and off for basically my whole ...
DEA Raises ADHD Med Production Quotas. It Could Just Fix the Shortage.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is allowing pharmaceutical companies to produce a higher volume of ...
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 ...
Overdose Deaths Fell Slightly in 2023, Per CDC, But Emergency Continues
New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that fewer ...
Stimulant Harm Reduction Should Include Synthetic Cannabinoids
Usually “stimulants” refers to methamphetamine or cocaine, or prescription uppers like Adderall. But it’s ...
If Abstinence Isn’t the Point of Contingency Management, What Is?
There aren’t any treatments for stimulant use disorder (SUD) that have strong evidence, but ...
Stimulant Treatment Research Finally Uses Outcome Besides Abstinence
To whatever degree harm reduction has gotten mainstreamed, it still hasn’t budged the meaning ...
How Common Is Fentanyl in Samples of Cocaine and Meth?
At face value, a recent study shows that fentanyl was quite common in samples ...
The FDA Draft Guidance for Stimulant Use Disorder Medication Is… Decent
One of the reasons we have Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for opioid use ...
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. ...
