Tag: stimulants
Inside the CDC Data That Confirm the Pandemic Is Driving Up Overdose Deaths
For months, media outlets including Filter have reported on a collage of anecdotal and ...
DC Must Decriminalize Snorting and Smoking Kits to Protect Our Health
Before COVID-19, the District of Columbia was already experiencing a public health crisis that ...
Safe Consumption Means Safe Inhalation, Too: An All-Inclusive Model
Methamphetamine-related harms vary across Canada. Our west coast has obviously been hit hard, as ...
California May Soon Pay People to Reduce Their Meth Use
Low-income Californians with methamphetamine use disorders may soon have expanded access to a well ...
Forced to Quit Methadone Because of His Adderall Prescription
Breadman came to me recently with a harrowing story. Aged 43, he lives in ...
Opportunities and Limits of New Federal Funding for Stimulant Responses
As the federal government pours billions of dollars into state-level responses to opioid use ...
Meth Has Many Medical Benefits. Stigma Holds Them Back.
Ask your doctor about methamphetamine. It’s not a phrase you’ll ever hear on TV ...
The Overdose Crisis’s Move Out West Is Nothing New
In July 2019, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released preliminary data ...
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 ...
Watch: Fentanyl Safety Campaign Poses the “Coke Challenge”
US-based harm reduction group DanceSafe and Canadian creative agency The Garden have partnered to ...
