Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of ...

Methamphetamine is a highly addictive psychostimulant and one of the most widely abused drugs worldwide. Production and distribution of methamphetamine have increased significantly, leading to greater ...

The devastating stimulant has been hitting Portland, Maine hard, even competing with fentanyl as the street drug of choice. Although a fentanyl overdose can be reversed with Narcan, no medicine can ...

The chemical methamphetamine hydrochloride is generally simply known as methamphetamine. Common street names for methamphetamine include crank, speed, meth, crystal meth, ice and crystal tea. It has ...

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 ...

A man demonstrates lighting up a freebase methamphetamine pipe. (Photo by Younes Mohammad / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by YOUNES MOHAMMAD/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty ...

Drug and substance abuse continues to be a major problem across the United States, with 1 in 4 Americans over the age of 12 admitting that they used illicit drugs in 2022. 1 While alcohol, tobacco and ...

A placebo-controlled trial showed that use of the antidepressant mirtazapine in routine clinical practice reduced methamphetamine use in adults with methamphetamine use disorder. There were no ...