Scientists at UC San Diego will receive a $12.3 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study treating methamphetamine addiction and HIV using several medications in combination ...

It has an image of something evil, almost supernatural. A closer look in the context of the drug supply shows we've gone a little off-target.

Publishing a paper in a top-tier journal is a major accomplishment for faculty members. For first-year graduate students, it's almost unheard of. Alexandra N. Johansen, a psychology Ph.D. student at ...

Methamphetamine—more commonly known as meth, crystal or ice—is a highly addictive, stimulant drug. An estimated 7.4 million people in the world are dependent on it or "addicted" to it. They face ...

The five-year grant aims to address a critical gap in HIV care for people with active methamphetamine use disorder through an ...

Methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) remains one of the most underserved disorders in addiction medicine, largely because there are no FDA-approved medications for its treatment—yet. The 2024 National ...

Meth use accounted for about 1 in 6 heart attacks during the period reviewed. People who used meth and had a heart attack were younger (median age 52 years) and were more likely to be male compared to ...

I work as a felony prosecutor in a town where methamphetamine is our biggest narcotics problem. I’m also a big fan of Breaking Bad, but whenever I ask colleagues (particularly law-enforcement officers ...

The generic tetracyclic antidepressant mirtazapine was associated with a modest but significant reduction in methamphetamine use in adults with moderate-to-severe methamphetamine use disorder in a ...

Testing confirmed methamphetamine contamination at the Fort Collins Mennonite Fellowship, which closed in December. Multiple areas, including bathrooms and offices, had meth levels exceeding the state ...