Five years clean, Lindsey Cooksey reflects on her meth addiction Looking Back - Moving Forward – June 5, 2020 - About a year after moving to the lakes area, Cooksey started using meth. Her friends introduced her to the drug. Through meth and those friends, Cooksey met her no... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 9 2020methRecovery
NYC Rolls Out Courier System to Deliver Methadone Just Like Weed in LA – APRIL 23, 2020 - The patient’s “home” OTP may be far from the hotel. So the patient authorizes a “designated other”—a courier, who is an employee of the city’s Department of Health—to pick up ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020Coronavirusmeth
Falling Down a Mountain of Meth – A True Story A Woman’s Tale – April 2, 2020 - I instantly felt a rush of energy and … happiness. From then on and for the next few years, I used only on an occasional weekend: I was going to college and wasn’t going to let ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 14 2020meth
SF Bill Would Pay Meth Addicts to Quit Money For Nothing... – February 26, 2020 - Meth use is skyrocketing nationally, but there are few options available for treatment. San Francisco has been hit hard. Meth is now involved in a fifth of drug arrests in ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 3 2020methRehab
Meth use at an all-time high, but resources to fight it aren’t This Needle Heals – February 15, 2020 - While out with his drinking buddies one night, they offered Jensen a hit, and he “was immediately hooked,” he said. “It was nothing like anything I’d done before,” Jense... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020meth
What are methadone and buprenorphine? Good To Know – Feb. 2020 - You may have heard about methadone and buprenorphine, but what exactly are they and what do they do? Is medication assisted treatment really helpful for those with opioid dependency? Why ca... Read More...Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineFeb 11 2020meth
San Francisco to open tent ‘sobering’ center for meth users It has come to this! – February 6, 2020 - HealthRight 360, one of the largest San Francisco drug treatment providers, will run it. A driver with a van will be posted outside the center to pick up people show... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 11 2020homelessmeth
Why My Friend Silvio Horta’s Life and Death Matter Till Meth Do Us Part – JANUARY 28 2020 - I learned that meth is certainly not a drug just for people in trailer parks. It is incredibly prevalent in all parts of society, and particularly in gay culture. Statis... Read More...Feb 4 2020gayinterventionmeth