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Can a Target Gift Card Help You Stay Off Meth?

YES. MONEY TALKS NOBODY WALKS – July 4, 2022 - Behind the table, a program assistant hastened to clarify that it was a chance at a gift card — just a chance. But a chance was enough for Mark, who began filling ... Read More...

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Playing Russian Roulette…How Fentanyl Addiction Tore a Santa Clarita Family Apart

LAST ADDICT STANDING – July 1, 2022 - Their lives resembled those of the many trapped by addiction – in and out of rehab, jail cells and hospital beds – until the two Santa Clarita parents suffering from fentan... Read More...

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It’s An Overdose Crisis, NOT An Opioid Crisis

HARM REDUCTION is DEATH REDUCTION – June 27, 2022 - Anyone using pills or powder needs a naloxone kit, too.Rebrand naloxone as an overdose prevention drug rather than a drug that reverses an opioid ove... Read More...

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Potential New Treatment for Meth Addiction

VERY GOOD NEWS! – June 26, 2022 - Conducted from 2017 to 2019 at clinics in multiple community treatment programs nationwide, this study enrolled 403 adult volunteers ages 18 to 65 with moderate to severe meth... Read More...

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Jennifer Ward-Lealand: Directorial Debut with Film About Methamphetamine

HARROWING – June 13, 2022 - Disturb delves into methamphetamine addiction through the perspective of a kuia (grandmother) experiencing first-hand the drug’s hold on her moko (grandson). “So understanding wh... Read More...

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Oregon’s Botched Treatment Plan

FOLLOW THE MONEY – June 2, 2022 - Oregonians passed Ballot Measure 110 in 2020 decriminalizing possession of personal amounts of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs — the first in the nation to do... Read More...

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One Billion Pills! Ominous # of Drugs Seized in Asia

Unlimited Supply – May 30, 2022 - The number of methamphetamine tablets seized in East and Southeast Asia exceeded a billion last year for the first time... more@NPR ... Read More...

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New Meth Addiction Treatment

VIDEO – BULLY or BULLSHIT? – May 26, 2022 - Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare now has eight billboards around the city advertising a “new effective addiction treatment for meth, opioids, alcohol.” What is unusual here... Read More...

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Meth Use Speeds Up

DON’T METH WITH METH – May 20, 2022 - When 50-year-old meth addict Brian Groh was sentenced to jail last month, he went through a severe withdrawal. “When I first got here, I was really bad,” he... Read More...

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The Most Succe$$ful Drug Treatment That Work$

CARL HART WAS RIGHT – April 1, 2022 - “The approach, known as ... CM, has racked up a slew of successes. It has been shown to dramatically reduce people’s smoking during pregnancy and to help decrease bin... Read More...

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K-9 Hero Saves the Day

VIDEO – TAKING MATTERS INTO HER OWN PAWS – Mar. 30, 2022 - A Los Angeles police dog is getting some extra praise after the hard-working K-9 helped authorities find 104 pounds of illegal drugs. According t... Read More...

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My Dream Man is Now a Meth Addict

PRINCE CHARMING TINA – March 30, 2022 - By August 2020 when Sally fled the relationship the man she loved was ‘no where to be found’. The man that had replaced him was psychotic, irrational and had a $3000-per-... Read More...

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Florida Man Calls Police to Verify his Meth is Authentic

CAN’T MAKE THIS S*%T UP – Mar. 16, 2022 - Most drug users tend to keep their dealings under wraps, but one Florida man was arrested after allegedly calling police to check the authenticity of his methamphetami... Read More...

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Dad Beat Heroin and Meth Addiction For His Daughter

VIDEO – FAMILY COMES FIRST – March 1, 2022 - But after the birth of his little girl, eight, he knew he had to make a change in order to give her the best life he could. Photos from before and now show he is... Read More...

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Agents Seize $3M in Meth Hidden in Onions

THAT’S A LOT OF TEARS – Feb. 26, 2022 - “This was not only a clever attempt to try and smuggle in narcotics, one I haven’t seen before, but also time consuming to wrap narcotics into these small packages,... Read More...

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Portrait of Meth Addiction in the Czech Republic

VIDEO – DOCU ROCK-U – Feb. 15, 2022 - An intimate portrayal of methamphetamine addiction in the Czech Republic, Europe’s largest producer, through the life of Lenka, an addict of over 20 years. Lenka’s elde... Read More...

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Woman Beats Addiction

VIDEO – LIVES TO HELP OTHERS – Feb. 15, 2022 - “Pain pills, cocaine ... the one that took me the furthest down was meth,” said Dykes. Dykes continued to struggle with addiction even after her son Addison wa... Read More...

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New Documentary on Overdose Epidemic

VIDEO – WATCH AND WEEP – Feb. 10, 2022 - The overdose epidemic continues to ravage cities across America and right here in Indiana. More than 100,000 people died to drug overdose last year in America. A new fi... Read More...

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Fentanyl Causes More Deaths in Americans Ages 18-45

USA USA USA – Jan. 4, 2022 - In the year ending in April 2021, fentanyl claimed the lives of 40,010 Americans ages 18-45. That’s more than car accidents (22,442), suicide (21,678), COVID (21,335), and cancer (... Read More...

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Man vs. Epidemic: The Origin Story of Pill Man

MAKING A DIFFERENCE – Dec. 28, 2021 - The road to recovery was riddled with several obstacles, according to Huntley, including another episode with a different form of opioids: methadone. Used as a medicine to... Read More...

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‘I Was Living To Use’: A First-Person Account of Quitting Meth.

LISTEN – BREAKING THE ICE – Dec. 17, 2021 - For me, and I’m not sure if this is the same for everyone. I didn’t know it at the time, but I really noticed in my personality a couple of things. If I do something... Read More...

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Fentanyl & Meth Led to More Mental Illness, Homelessness & Death

LISTEN – HUMANITY ON THE SKIDS – Nov. 19, 2021 - Quinones tells Press Play that this book is about how the “underworld,” particularly the Mexican trafficking world, became the lead driver of pain pills and pus... Read More...

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‘This Is Poison’

ENJOY – Nov. 20, 2021 - While the mounting deaths show the devastating consequence of fentanyl’s seep, it is less widely understood why the drug has mushroomed. And why so many illicit products — from fentanyl... Read More...

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Overdose Deaths at a Historic High, FBI Targets Online Drug Markets

DEATH DELIVERED – Oct. 26, 2021 - These sites exist on the dark web or darknet, an area of the internet accessed through a specialized browser called Tor. Tor offers additional levels of privacy by obscuring t... Read More...

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California Governor Vetoes Recovery Incentives Act

AS I RECALL... – Oct. 8, 2021 - The Recovery Incentives Act aimed to legalize the substance use disorder treatment known as “contingency management,” and authorize Medi-Cal to cover it. Contingency management ... Read More...

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Can Paying Meth Addicts Help Them Stop Using?

LISTEN – PAY TO NOT PLAY – SEPT 28, 2021- DEMBOSKY: Studies show contingency management works. In the San Francisco program Billy Lemon did, 63% of participants stopped using meth entirely, and anoth... Read More...

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Meth Overdose Deaths Tripled in Recent Years

DYING TO GET HIGH – Sept. 23, 2021 - Deaths from methamphetamine overdoses in the United States nearly tripled between 2015 and 2019, health officials report in a new study. From that time period, the in... Read More...

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Fish becoming addicted to methamphetamine

SNORTING IT 24/7 – August 6, 2021 - To reach these conclusions, the team led by Horký, in coordination with colleagues from the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, designed an experiment that measu... Read More...

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Overdose deaths from meth up in LA County

WATCH – WORKING TO MAKE THINGS BETTER – July 24, 2021 - “We had a high increase in relapse because our meetings were shut down,” she said. During the height of the pandemic, the report documented nearly 1,400 a... Read More...

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