Recreational Drug Methamphetamine Overdose Deaths Rise Sharply
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 treatment strategies for methamphetamine use disorder. ‘Non-Hispanic Blacks had the sharpest incre...