MINNEAPOLIS — A massive methamphetamine bust in the Twin Cities is highlighting a disturbing trend in Minnesota’s drug landscape — a resurgence of meth use fueled by powerful trafficking networks.
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 ...
Methamphetamine, often simply called meth, is a stimulant that speeds up the central nervous system by boosting levels of dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved in movement and motivation. Prolonged ...
While opioids have been involved in most of Alaska’s drug overdose deaths, another drug is a frequent contributor to those outcomes: methamphetamine. A little over half of the fatal overdoses in ...
Methamphetamine use disorder is a neurological condition with well-documented effects on the brain. Meth floods dopamine pathways far beyond normal levels, damaging receptors tied to motivation, ...
Hyper-pure methamphetamine is a major driver of mental illness in Los Angeles and many other parts of the country.
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 ...