Meth Plays Big Role in Drug ODs in Rural America
TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Methamphetamine is driving an epidemic of drug overdoses in rural America, a new study concludes. Researchers attribute the surge to meth laced with fentanyl...
View ArticleMarijuana, Meth, Cocaine Use Can Help Trigger Dangerous A-Fib
THURSDAY, Oct. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Using marijuana increases the risk of developing the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation (a-fib), a new study suggests. It’s been known that drugs such...
View ArticleCases of Meth-Linked Heart Failure Are Spreading Worldwide
FRIDAY, Dec. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Methamphetamine wreaks havoc on the heart, warns new research that shows heart failure rates linked to the illicit drug are on the rise around the world. Not...
View ArticleCases of Deadly Heart Infection Tied to Opioid Abuse Rose Sharply During...
TUESDAY, Dec. 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Researchers already knew that injecting drugs can lead to the dangerous and deadly heart infection called endocarditis. Now they know that also becoming...
View ArticleU.S. Deaths Involving Meth Are Skyrocketing, Fentanyl a Big Factor
TUESDAY, Feb. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Deaths from methamphetamine among Americans increased 50-fold between 1999 and 2021, a chilling new study reports. Most of these deaths also involved heroin or...
View ArticleWider Supply of Opioid Antidote Naloxone Won’t Encourage Heroin Use: Study
WEDNESDAY, March 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Contrary to concerns, wider availability of naloxone treatment is not increasing heroin use among U.S. teens, new research finds. Naloxone (Narcan) quickly...
View ArticleMethadone Treatment Does Help Curb Fentanyl, Heroin Use, Study Shows
THURSDAY, May 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When people receive methadone treatment for opioid use disorder, their use of the dangerous drugs heroin and fentanyl significantly declines, a new study...
View ArticleFatal ODs Involving Fentanyl Plus Coke, Meth Rose 50-Fold Over a Decade
THURSDAY, Sept. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The “fourth wave” of the U.S. overdose crisis involves the use of illicit fentanyl mixed with stimulants such as cocaine or methamphetamine, and it’s killing...
View ArticleAny Kind of Drug Abuse Treatment Can Help Gay Men Kick Meth Habit
TUESDAY, Dec. 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Methamphetamine abuse has long plagued the gay community, but a new study finds that any form of substance abuse treatment can help users quit. In a news...
View ArticleFDA Asked to Consider Party Drug MDMA as Treatment for PTSD
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A California company has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve MDMA, the active ingredient in party drugs like molly and ecstasy, as a...
View ArticleTwo-Drug Treatment Could Curb Meth Addiction
MONDAY, June 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Though overdose deaths continue to surge, there is no approved medication to treat methamphetamine use disorder. Now, an experimental two-drug therapy has...
View ArticleRecreational Drug Use Triples Odds for Repeat Heart Crises
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Recreational drug users are three times more likely to have repeated heart health emergencies than people who don’t use, a new study has found. About 11% of...
View ArticleFatal Opioid-Meth Overdoses Have Fallen in U.S. by More Than a Third
TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Expanded access to addiction treatment and the overdose-reversal med naloxone likely prompted a 37% reduction in OD deaths linked to opioids taken with meth...
View ArticlePsychedelics Like Psilocybin, MDMA Tied to Higher Odds for Schizophrenia
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People are at higher risk of schizophrenia if they indulge in psychedelic drugs, a new study warns. Patients who land in the ER following hallucinogen use...
View ArticleU.S. Teen Drug, Alcohol Use Remains at Low Levels
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Rates of vaping, drug and alcohol use among American teens plummeted during the pandemic and have remained at relatively low levels ever since, new...
View ArticleA New Way to Treat Sjögren’s Disease? Researchers Are Hopeful
FRIDAY, Dec. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An existing drug might be able to treat an autoimmune disorder that causes dry eye, dry mouth, fatigue and muscle or joint pain. Baricitinib (Olumiant), a drug...
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