Drug overdose deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants with abuse potential among racial and ethnic groups - United States, 2004-2019 - Kariisa M, Seth P, Scholl L, Wilson N, Davis NL.
BACKGROUND: Drug overdose deaths involving stimulants, including cocaine and psychostimulants with abuse potential (e.g., methamphetamine), have been increasing, partly because of co-involvement with opioids. Stimulant-involved overdose deaths have disprop... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Methamphetamine and alcohol detection in vehicle-driver fatalities in South Australia: a 10-year survey (2008-2018) - O'Donovan S, Lewis D, van den Heuvel C, Baldock M, Humphries MA, Byard RW.
Motor vehicle driver fatalities ( ≥18 years) from the files at Forensic Science South Australia were reviewed from January 2008 to December 2018 for cases in which either positive blood sample for methamphetamine (MA) or an illegal blood alcohol concentr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
China Upholds Death Sentence for Robert Lloyd Schellenberg
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg initially received 15 years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking. But he was handed a death sentence in a... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Methamphetamine use among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States - Coughlin LN, Lin LA, Jannausch M, Ilgen MA, Bonar EE.
BACKGROUND: Recent trends show methamphetamine use is increasing in the United States. American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities face health disparities compared to the population overall, including some of the highest rates of illegal drug use... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Methamphetamine and amphetamine detection, impairment, positive reporting concentrations, and Paracelsus - Brown OR.
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Source: SafetyLit - July 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Democratic donor Ed Buck convicted in connection to drug overdose deaths of 2 men in his apartment
Democratic political donor Ed Buck was convicted Tuesday of two drug overdose deaths and injecting gay men with methamphetamine in... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ed Buck convicted in meth overdose deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean
Ed Buck is found guilty exactly four years after Moore, 26, died of a methamphetamine overdose in Buck's West Hollywood apartment. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
"It's crazy what meth can help you do": lay beliefs, practices, and experiences of using methamphetamine to self-treat symptoms of opioid withdrawal - Silverstein SM, Daniulaityte R, Getz K, Zule W.
BACKGROUND: Across the U.S., methamphetamine use is expanding among people who use illicit opioids (PWUIO). Motives for methamphetamine use must be contextualized within the experiences of PWUIO, who may use methamphetamine not only to achieve euphoria, bu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 25, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
The U.S. Reported a Record 93,000 Drug Overdose Deaths During the 2020 Pandemic Year
(NEW YORK) — Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday.
That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous year and amounts to a 29% increase.
“This is a staggering loss of human life,” said Brandon Marshall, a Brown University public health researcher who tracks overdose trends.
The nation was already struggling with its worst overdose epidemic but clearly “COVID has greatly exacerbated the crisis,” he added.
Lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions isolated thos...
Source: TIME: Health - July 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MIKE STOBBE/AP Tags: Uncategorized Addiction COVID-19 wire Source Type: news
Methamphetamine-Linked Heart Failure Up in California
WEDNESDAY, July 14, 2021 -- From 2008 to 2018, there was a sharp increase in methamphetamine-associated cardiomyopathy/heart failure (MethHF) hospitalizations and related costs in California, according to a study published online July 14 in... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - July 14, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Meth Abuse Drove Huge Surge in Heart Failure Crises in California
WEDNESDAY, July 14, 2021 -- In a finding that demonstrates methamphetamine ' s power to destroy the human heart, new research shows hospitalizations for heart failure related to the illicit drug have soared by 585% in California. " Our study results... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - July 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Methamphetamine use drove surge in heart failure hospitalizations, costs in California
(American Heart Association) Methamphetamine-related heart failure hospitalizations rose a staggering 585% between 2008 and 2018 in California.Costs associated with methamphetamine-related hospitalizations in California jumped even higher, 840%. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 14, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Deploying a fotonovela to combat methamphetamine abuse among South Africans with varying levels of health literacy - Davis B, Jansen CJM.
Poor health literacy in the Western Cape Province of South Africa is one of the main factors hampering methamphetamine (MA) use prevention efforts in the area, where the abuse of this drug is a major health and social problem affecting especially previousl... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 5, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Should Feds Allow a Therapy That Pays Meth Users to Abstain? Should Feds Allow a Therapy That Pays Meth Users to Abstain?
The approach, known as contingency management, has helped thousands of veterans kick the methamphetamine habit, but a federal government ruling has limited its use.Kaiser Health News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - July 2, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
