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Keys for Successful Warm Hand-Offs with Stimulant-Using Patients

Trying to stop the madness – Oct. 29, 2020 - Since receiving a Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) state targeted response grant in 2017, the Chicago-based Gateway Foundation has worked with substa... Read More...

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Top 3 American Cities With Worst Drug Problems

No Prize Winners Here – Oct. 17, 2020 - Chicago, Illinois Chicago is known as The Windy City, but it’s also becoming known as a place where the drug issues of those that live there is getting out of ha... Read More...

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The Quest for a Medication to Treat Methamphetamine Addiction

No meth heads on the staff? – Sep. 21, 2020 - Thus began a quest to find a molecule that would maintain lobeline’s ability to inhibit the target VMAT2, but would be safe and effective for human use. Also, the researc... Read More...

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Addiction is a Disease?

Maybe? Maybe not. – Sept. 14, 2020 - If addiction is a disease, then we should treat addicts the same way we treat diabetics. The goal in treating diabetics is not to cure diabetes but to limit its harm: Treatm... Read More...

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What Happened Inside Ed Buck’s Apartment?

Real Life Hollywood Horror – September 16, 2020 - One death is a tragedy; two deaths are a pattern. As the strange events on North Laurel Avenue captured the attention of the national media, a shocking new detail cam... Read More...

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Wife assaults husband during celebration of her sobriety

Unclear on the concept – August 21, 2020 - He said the children were locked in the back bedroom and he went outside where she followed him and hit him some more. When he tried to push her away he said she bit him ... Read More...

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Murder, Meth, and the case of two missing girls!

MEDIA: BOOK Review – August 21, 2020 - It’s the story author Jax Miller is now hoping to share with the world. Her book “Hell in the Heartland” was released July 28 and was her first soiree into fiction writing. “... Read More...

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U.S. Senators Introduce Bill to Confront Rising Threat of Methamphetamine

Speed is of the essence – August 8, 2020 - Over the first nine months of the fiscal year, methamphetamine seizures increased by 52 percent, which shows how widely available this deadly drug has become. We must ... Read More...

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From Meth Addict to Bird Whisperer

The right tweets – June 11, 2020 - Truax revealed he began using crack cocaine before turning to meth. “I went from crackhead, to meth-head, to healthy sober birb whisperer,” he said. “Now I’m telling my story on Y... Read More...

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Defendant Fell Asleep at In-N-Out Drive Thru – Marijuana, Heroin, and Meth Found in Car

Forgot the OUT part – June 02, 2020 - He found a money bag in his car containing two larger bags of heroin, six small bags of meth, pills that were later identified as Suboxone and $315 in cash. His defense couns... Read More...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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