Methamphetamine Overdose News Today

Fatal overdoses involving fentanyl and stimulants, mainly cocaine and methamphetamine, have skyrocketed, ushering in the fourth wave of the US opioid epidemic.

A new initiative takes a public-health-based approach to substance use, but some experts say that it will not ensure a safe supply of drugs.

A man has been charged in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found at a Red Carpet Inn in Lebanon County last year.

At a time of record-breaking drug overdose deaths, an analysis of urine drug test results shows skyrocketing rates of synthetic opioid use across the country.

Stimulants may lead to better engagement in buprenorphine treatment at the cost of a modest increase in drug overdose risk in patients with opioid addiction.

Recreational Drug Methamphetamine Overdose Deaths Rise Sharply by Colleen Fleiss on  January 21, 2021 at 11:12 PM JAMA Psychiatry. The research was conducted at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. From 2011-2018, methamphetamine deaths more than quadrupled among non-Hispanic American Indians and Alaska Natives. The study findings highlight the urgent need to develop culturally tailored, gender-specific prevention and tr...

Democrat of mississippi, is the chair of the select committee to investigate january 6th, and he joins me now. congressman, i feel that theres actually still a lot we dont know about the deaths of the individuals who died that day. theres been sporadic reports. we have some reporting on ashli babbitt and her death. other individuals, one woman who has declared a methamphetamine overdose, obviously brian sicknick. will that be one of the focal points of the committee? >> well, well look at everyt...