Extended-release injectable naltrexone combined with extended-release oral bupropion (NTX + BUPN) for moderate or severe methamphetamine use disorder was associated with a significant decrease in use ...

Methamphetamine use , methamphetamine-related overdoses, and methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) are national problems that cause serious illness and death.. Making matters worse, methamphetamine is ...

Though overdose deaths continue to surge, there is no approved medication to treat methamphetamine use disorder. Now, an experimental two-drug therapy has yielded promising results, UCLA researchers ...

Methamphetamine (MA) use disorder poses a significant public health challenge, particularly given the rise in MA-involved overdoses over the past decade. Despite the severity of this issue, there is ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued draft guidance to facilitate the development of treatments for substance use disorders related to stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamine. The FDA ...

When it comes to treating methamphetamine addiction, the use of behavioral incentives is settled science. Offering financial rewards, like gift cards, to people who demonstrate that they’ve reduced or ...

There aren’t any FDA-approved medications for cocaine, methamphetamine and prescription stimulants. The agency is looking to fill that void. An agency draft guidance lays out recommendations on the ...

A prescription medication used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) could be repurposed as the first pharmacotherapy for people with methamphetamine dependence, according to a ...

When Billy Lemon was trying to kick his methamphetamine addiction, he went to a drug treatment program at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation three times a week and peed in a cup. If it tested negative ...

More than half of the overdose deaths in King County this year involve not only fentanyl, but methamphetamine. While the fentanyl epidemic in Washington receives a lot of attention because it’s so ...

Editor’s note: We recently asked readers to send in their most burning questions about homelessness. One of the top questions was: Does addiction cause homelessness? This post is our first attempt to ...