Tag: stimulants

    DEA Raises Adderall Production Quotas for the First Time

    The Drug Enforcement Administration has raised aggregate production quotas (APQ) for the active ingredients ...

    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    The FDA Draft Guidance for Stimulant Use Disorder Medication Is… Decent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 ...