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Meth Rampant For California’s Homeless: Treatment Elusive

SOCIETY’S CHILD – March 13, 2025 - The mean age of the homeless people who participated in the survey was 46. Thirty-seven percent reported regular drug use in the prior six months. A quarter of the homeless pe... Read More...

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Maria Callas Suffered Addiction for Methamphetamines

SHE DID IT HER WAY – Dec. 11, 2024 - People are buzzing about Angelina Jolie’s role as Maria Callas in the new Netflix biopic, Maria. In fact, Angelina has already earned a Golden Globe nom for it. Callas stopped per... Read More...

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Vermont’s Largest Rehab No Longer Accepts Patients on Methadone

TOO MUCH TROUBLE? – &nb... Read More...

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Controversial Treatment For Meth Addicts Gains Ground

IT’S A GIFT...CARD – Oct. 5, 2024 - Bernard Groves has spent five years trying to quit methamphetamine. He lost his job. He lost his car. He nearly lost his apartment. Worse than that, he says, his addiction has h... Read More...

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Meth Addict Seizes the Light After Giving Birth

AUDIO – NPR STORYCORPS – Aug. 2, 2024 - Irene Montoya is the owner of Sunflower trucking in Cheyenne, Wyo. She drives a dump truck. She’s also raising her 14-year-old son. 15 years ago, her life looked very d... Read More...

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Sheriff’s Deputy Died of Meth Overdose While on Duty

MYSTERIOUS – June 20, 2024 - Jonathan Stewart died from the effects of methamphetamine April 27. An LA sheriff’s representative could not immediately be reached for comment about how Stewart died, whether the ... Read More...

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Seattle’s New Approach for Treating Addiction — Gift Cards

ANYTHING CAN HELP – June 6, 2024 - Michael Crowley was among the first cohort of a new program being offered in Plymouth Housing buildings that ties small financial rewards to reducing, or eliminating, substan... Read More...

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Brad Lamm Shines a light on Meth Epidemic in LGBTQ Community

METH IS A MYTH – May 22, 2024 - The silent epidemic of methamphetamine addiction in the LGBTQ+ community has reached a breaking point, leaving countless lives shattered in its wake. In response to this growing... Read More...

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75¢ to Numb The Pain

SOMETIMES ETERNITY – May 22, 2024 - “Fentanyl and meth, we do like five each a day,” Holly Wall and Brandon Kennedy said. “It numbs you. It numbs your pain.” Getting high is as easy as smoking one pill, and t... Read More...

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California Pays Meth Users to Get Clean

THE GOLDEN STATE – May 22, 2024 - Quinn Coburn knows the lifestyle well. He has used meth most of his adult life, and has done five stints in jail for dealing marijuana, methamphetamine, and heroin. Now 56, he... Read More...

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I Was Addicted To Meth For 7 Years And No One Knew

EXCEPT HER – May 14, 2024 - I was “dating” a bad boy at the time. Our relationship only lasted a summer, but we were together long enough for him to introduce me to methamphetamine, which he sold. I hardly dra... Read More...

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More Addiction Patients Can Take Methadone at Home

STILL NOT ENOUGH – May 8, 2024 - Despite methadone’s effectiveness, a labyrinth of state and federal rules keeps it inaccessible to many people who desperately need it. “What kind of normal person with a... Read More...

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Gift Cards Can Be a Tool to Stop Meth Addiction

AND THE GIFT OF A BETTER LIFE – April 16, 2024 - Clyde Davis battled a methamphetamine and heroin addiction for over nine years. Contingency management uses positive reinforcement as a behavioral treatment for... Read More...

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Can Methadone Vans Deliver the Goods?

STEP RIGHT UP – April 1, 2024 - “This kind of initiative is about using harm reduction, bringing services to where people are; it’s about using an evidence-based strategy,” Dr. Cunningham. “We know metha... Read More...

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Opioid Epidemic Continues to Crash Ashore, Surfing on Fentanyl and Meth

WILL IT NEVER STOP? – Feb. 21, 2024 - The United States is knee-deep in what some experts call the opioid epidemic’s “fourth wave,” which is not only placing drug users at greater risk but is also complicating effort... Read More...

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With New Methadone Rule, SAMHSA Isn’t Coming to Save Us

IT’S COMPLICATED – Feb. 13, 2024 - For patients, it means the majority will continue to suffer under the clinics’ culture of cruelty. “The decision to provide take-home doses rests with the treating practition... Read More...

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Emma Corlett – Social Media Star: Meth Addict’s Recovery Story

VIDEO – EVERYONE CAN CHANGE – Jan. 20, 2024 - “It’s really hard to believe, looking back at the old Emma, to who I am now. I would never have imagined I would do modelling.” Who Emma is now is a long way away from ... Read More...

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Life After Meth — Learning to Open and Close the Curtains

PERSONAL ACCOUNT – Dec. 17, 2023 - When I was on meth, I was busy. Very busy. There was gardening to do, color-coding the closet, taking apart doorknobs, trying to put doorknobs back together and trips to Home... Read More...

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Methadone Withdrawal-Related Psychosis in Patients With Hormone-Dependent Breast Cancer

DANGER AHEAD – Dec. 28, 2023 - Methadone withdrawal usually presents as a classical opiate withdrawal syndrome, including symptoms such as restlessness, pupillary dilation, sweating, insomnia, irritability, sneezing,... Read More...

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The Life and Death Fight for Control of Methadone

THEY DON’T HAVE TO DIE – Oct. 20, 2023 - While methadone is easily the most effective drug currently approved to treat opioid addiction, it’s accessible only at specialized clinics that require patients to par... Read More...

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Fentanyl Mixed with Cocaine and Meth Creates ‘4th Wave’ of the Overdose Deaths

AUDIO – IT’S HAPPENED BEFORE – Sept. 14, 2023 - Another group of people who are affected are people intending to use stimulants on their own but who don’t realize their supply has been laced with or contaminated wi... Read More...

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Man Stopped For Failure to Use Turn Signal With 40 Pounds of Meth In Trunk

YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN – Aug. 28, 2023 - Johnathan De Jesus Monzon Valdivia, 21, faces charges of trafficking methamphetamine, trafficking heroin, failure to maintain lane, failure to use a turning signal and drivin... Read More...

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Afghanistan Meth Trade Surges as Taliban Clamps Down on Heroin Trade

WHO’S IN CHARGE? – Sept. 9, 2023 -While heroin trafficking has slowed, the UNODC said in a statement, meth trafficking “has intensified since the ban”. Meth seizures in and around Afghanistan jumped 12-fold in the... Read More...

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Fake Prescription Pills Fuels Drug Overdose Deaths

MADNESS IN AMERICA – Sept. 6, 2023 - More than 90% of the counterfeit drugs contained the extremely powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, which has driven total US overdose deaths to more than 100,000 a year. Ot... Read More...

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Global Methamphetamine Market Projected to Reach $881.32 million by 2030

CAPITALISM – Aug. 26, 2023 - The Methamphetamine Market has exhibited remarkable shifts over the years, shaped by a blend of long-term market drivers and the unexpected influence of external factors like the C... Read More...

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“I’m a meth addict mum – this is why I couldn’t stop.”

COMING CLEAN—NOT GETTING CLEAN – Aug. 14, 2023 - This is common for the thousands of babies born in Australia to mothers who used ice late in their pregnancies, with agonising withdrawal symptoms leading to fe... Read More...

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Santa Clara County Pays Meth Addicts to Get Clean

CASH TALKS NOBODY WALKS – Aug. 4, 2023 - As reported in Mountain View Voice, Santa Clara County has been struggling with a significant drug-related issue, particularly methamphetamine, which accounts for more ... Read More...

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The Age of Drug Normalization

IT’S ALL GOOD? – June 11, 2023 - In addition to crystal methamphetamine, Blanchard said she also used heroin and “lots of different things under the sun.” A trans woman, she said she began using drugs while engaging ... Read More...

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Narcan, Crackpipe, Tampons, Lip Balm in Vending Machine

IN EVERY SUBWAY STATION! – June 5, 2023 - Commissioner Ashwin Vasan just unveiled a vending machine that dispenses free Narcan and drug-test strips — along with “safe-smoking” pipes, condoms, tampons, nicotine... Read More...

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