A drug such as naloxone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, does not exist for meth. And there are no drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration that can treat a meth addiction.

In what may signal a seismic shift in the treatment of methamphetamine addiction, a pair of prescription drugs appears to help patients significantly reduce their stimulant use, or quit altogether.

A deluge of meth has police and parents of users shifting their focus from opioids to the stimulant – though the opioid crisis continues.

Working in the addiction field for as long as I have, I’ve witnessed numerous patients admit for treatment with several drugs in their systems at once.

In a country that is still recovering from an opioid crisis, law enforcers are starting to see the emergence of super-powered versions of meth.

PORTLAND, Ore. — There's a new plan of action to fight Oregon's methamphetamine addiction crisis, and it involves financial incentives to change addictive behavior. The illicit drug dominates ...

The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), which collects information on drug-related episodes from hospital emergency departments (EDs) throughout the USA, claims methamphetamine accounted for about ...

Now, addiction experts believe that the key to helping meth users is to acknowledge that it’s a unique drug with barriers unlike other addictive drugs that keep people from quitting.

New methamphetamine users numbered 133,000. In 2010, more than 100,000 were admitted to drug abuse treatment with methamphetamine as their primary substance of abuse.

A new approach, if successful in human trials, could curb addiction while not detracting from the positive feelings of ...

A drug such as naloxone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, does not exist for meth. And there are no drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration that can treat a meth addiction.